Items in this collection:
Title:
Original Leaves from Famous Books
Date:
1122 A.D.-1923 A.D
Source:
From the Otto F. Ege Collection
Subject:
Printing--Specimens
Printing--History
Publisher:
Case Western Reserve University, digital content
Format:
image/tiff
40 leaves; 49 cm.
Title:
Original Leaves from Famous Books
Date:
1122 A.D.-1923 A.D
Source:
From the Otto F. Ege Collection
Subject:
Printing--Specimens
Printing--History
Publisher:
Case Western Reserve University, digital content
Format:
image/tiff
40 leaves; 49 cm.
Description:
Includes leaves from famous books written between 1122 A.D. - 1923 A.D. Among the examples are Mohammad's The Koran Manuscript, Livy's The History of Rome, and Erasmus' Adage Printed by Jerome Froben, in 1528.
Annotated chronological index by Otto F. Ege.
Includes leaves from works produced by the following printers: Wendelin de Spire, Nicolas Jenson, Antonio de Strata, Petrus de Piasio, Anton Koberger, Aldus Manutius, Thielman Kerver, Julian Notary, Johann Froben, Helizabeth de Resconibus, Jerome Froben, Robert Estienne, Adrian Turnebus, John Oporinus, Gabriel Giolito, John Cawood, H. Petri, Lucantonio Giunta, John Norton, George Bishop, Rolfe Newberrie, and Robert Barker, Adam Islip, Juan de la Cuesta, Robert Barker, John Haviland, H. Herringman, E. Brewster, R. Bentley, B. Franklin, W. Strahan, John Baskerville, Giambattista Bodoni, Kelmscott Press, Riverside Press, Doves Press, Ashendene Press, Bremer Press
[Manuscript leaves]: 1122 (Cairo) Muhammad, Koran; 1240 (Paris) St. Jerome, Vulgate Bible; 1365 (Erfurt) Aristotle, Ethics; 1436 (Italy) Livy, History of Rome; 1460 (France) Book of hours; 1470 (Italy) Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences -- [Incunabula leaves]: 1472 (Venice) Cicero, On duty; 1475 (Italy) Laertius, Lives of the philosophers; 1480 (Venice) Voragine, Golden legend; 1491 (Venice) Dante, Divine comedy; 1493 (Nuremberg) Schedel, Nuremberg chronicle -- [Leaves from XVI century imprints]: 1502 (Venice) Herodotus, History; 1512 (Paris) Justinian Code; 1515 (London) Chronicles of England; 1525 (Basle) Pliny, Natural history; 1527 (Venice) Ovid, Metamorphoses; 1528 (Basle) Erasmus, Adages; 1540 (Paris) Suetonius, Lives of the twelve Caesars; 1552 (Paris) Aeschyls, Six tragedies; 1555 (Basle) Vesalius, Anatomy; 1559 (Venice) Petrarch, Sonnets and Canzoni; 1570 (London) Barclay, Ship of fools; 1577 (Basle) Jovius, Lives of illustrious men; 1585 (Venice) Writings of Hippocrates; 1597 (London) Gerard, History of plants; 1598-1600 (London) Hakluyt, Voyages -- [Leaves from XVI-XX century imprints]: 1602 (London) Works of Chaucer; 1608 (Madrid) Cervantes, Don Quixote; 1611 (London) King James Bible; 1638 (London) Bacon, Advancement of Learning, New Atlantis, On the wisdom of the ancients; 1685 (London) Shakespeare, Fourth folio; 1752 (Philadelphia) Johnson, Noetica and Ethica; 1755 (London) Johnson, Dictionary; 1757 (Birmingham, England) Virgil, Poems; 1794 (Parma) Thomson, Seasons; 1895 (London) Beowulf; 1902-1904 (Cambridge, Mass.) Montaigne, Essays; 1905 (London) Milton, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes and other poems; 1920 (Chelsea, England) Boccaccio, Decameron; 1923 (Munich) Homer, Iliad and Odyssey
Contributor:
Ege, Otto F.
Type:
Text
Manuscript document
Identifier:
http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:egebooks
Language:
French
Hebrew
English
German
Italian
Coverage:
12th Century to Early 20th Century
Egypt
Germany
Italy
France
England
United States
Switzerland
Rights:
These images are owned by Special Collections, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. For permission to reproduce and/or publish, contact Special Collections at 216-368-2993