History of the Book: Leaf Collection, 1250-1939

Overview of the Collection

Title
History of the Book: Leaf Collection
Dates
1250-1939 (inclusive)
Quantity
64 items, (1 portfolio)
Collection Number
OLPb075LEA
Summary
This collection includes leaves from books by key European printers from the introduction of the printing press in the fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century.
Repository
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Leaves from books, both handwritten and printed, on vellum and paper.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

History of the Book Leaf Collection (OLPb075LEA), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Location of Collection

Special Collections flat storage drawers

Acquisition Information

Donated by Paul Merchant, 2010.

Future Additions

Items may be added to this collection periodically.

Processing Note

Processed in 2010.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Container(s) Description Dates
1 Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Stephen Langton
c. 1250
2 "Psalms 71-72," Leaf from a Psalter in Latin
France
c. early 13th c.
3 "Psalms 73-74," Leaf from a Psalter in Latin
France
c. early 13th c.
4 Job from a Book of Hours made for Sir John Fastolf, Rouen
Ms on vellum
c. 1440
5 Margaret of Antioch from a book of saints’ lives
Ms on vellum
c. 1450
6 Macrobius
printed by Nicholas Jenson, Venice
1472
7 Bible leaf from Isaiah 38:11-18"
France
c. 1475
8 Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum Doctrinale
printed by Adolf Rusch, Strassburg 1477
1477
9 Ebendorfer, Sermones Dominicales
pub by Heinrich Knoblochtzer, Strassburg
1478
10 Bible leaf from Genesis
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
1479
11 Bible leaf from Apocalypse
pub by Ottaviano Scoto, Venice
1480
12 Jacobus de Voraigne, Legenda aurea sanctorum
Caxton, London
1483
13 Nic. Perrotus, Cornucopiae
pub. by Bernard of Cremona & Simon of Livorno, Venice
1490
14 Angelus de Clavasio, Summa Angelica
pub by Georgius Arrivabenus, Venice
1492
15 Peter Lombard, Sentences
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
1492
16 Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
1493
17 Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
1493
18 Schedel Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
1493
19 Carracciolus, Sermones
pub by Michael Greyff, Reutlingen
1495
20 Petrarca, Francisco, Opera Latina
pub by Johannes von Amerbach, Basel
1496
21 Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Johann Schönsperger, Augsburg
1496
22 Bible leaf from Numbers
pub by Froben & Langendorf, Basel
1498
23 Horatius Flaccus, Opera [Odes I,8; I,27]
pub by Johann Grüninger, Strassburg
1498
24 Aratus, Phaenomena
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
1499
25 Marcellinus Antonin, Works of Cicero
pub by Johannes de Vingle, Lyons
1500
26 Juvenal, Satires
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
1501
27 Bible in Bohemian
pub by Peter Lichtenstein, Venice
1506
28 Jean Lemaire de Belges, Le traictie intitule de la difference des scismes et des concilles de leglise et de la preeminence et utilite des co[n]cilles: de la saincte eglise Gallicaine
pub by [Geoffrey de Marnef], Paris
1511
29 Erasmus, Bible Commentary
pub by Froben, Basel
1516
30 Bible leaf from Hebrews
pub by Lucantonio Giunta, Venice
1519
31 Dio Cassius, Lives of the Emperors
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
1519
32 Bartolo of Saxoferrato, Commentaries
pub by Jacob Saccon, Lyons
1521
33 Martial, Epigrams
pub by Guilielmus de Fontaneto, Venice
1521
34 Petrarch, Sonetti e Canzoni (e Trionfi)
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
1521
35 Plutarch, Lives of Romans & Greeks
pub by Ludovicus Britannicus et fratres, Brescia
1534
36 Vergil, Aeneid, translated by Gavin Douglas
pub by W. Copland, London
1553
37 Justin the Martyr, Works (index)
pub by Jacques Dupuys, Paris
1554
38 Bible leaf from Ecclesiasticus
pub by Francesco Durone, Geneva
1562
39 Apian, Cosmography
pub in Antwerp, using plates from 1524 first edition
1575
40 Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles
pub by H. Bynneman f. J. Harrison, London
1577
41 Bible (Geneva text, quarto)
pub by Christopher Barker, London
1580
42 Petrarch, Works w/ Gesualdo commentary
pub by Alessandro Griffio, Venice
1581
43 Bible (Geneva text, folio)
pub by Christopher Barker, London
1583
44 Biblia Sacra
pub by Christophe Plantin, Antwerp
1583
45 Hebrew Bible leaf from Esther
pub by Christophe Plantin, Antwerp
1564
46 Bible leaf from Numbers
pub by Henry Middleton, London
1585
47 Biblia Sacra (Jerome vulgate text)
pub by Damian Zenarus, Venice
1603
48 Ortelius, Atlas
pub by Plantin, Antwerp
1612
49 King James Bible (49-line first edition)
pub by Christopher Barker, London
1611
50 King James Bible (72-line second edition)
pub by Robert Barker, London
1613
51 Shakespeare, First Folio Works
pub by Jaggard and Blount
1623
52 Shakespeare, Second Folio Works
pub by Thomas Cotes
1632
53 Ben Jonson, Sejanus
pub by Bishop, London
1640
54 Walton Polyglot Bible
pub by Thomas Roycroft, London
1656
55 Indenture in Latin, dealing with land transfer in Yorkshire
ms
1683
56 Arndt, Wahren Christenthum
pub by B. Franklin & Johann Bohm, Philadelphia
1751
57 Alexander Pope, Epistle I
pub by Foulis Press, Glasgow
1785
58 John Johnson, Typographia
pub by Longman, Hurst, London
1824
59 Voragine, Golden Legend
pub by William Morris, Kelmscott
1892
60 Caxton, Reynard the Fox
pub by William Morris, Kelmscott
1892
61 Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose
pub by William Morris. Kelmscott
1896
62 Milton, Paradise Lost
pub by Doves Press, England
1902
63 Sara Bard Field, The Cats, Los Gatos
pub in California
c. 1920
64 Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
1927
65 Cervantes, Don Quixote
pub by Ashendene Press, Chelsea
1927-8
66 Golden Cockerel Press Prospectus
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
1929
67 Osterley, Roses of Sharon
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
1937
68 Nancy Quennell, A Lover’s Progress
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
1938
69 Christmas Books Prospectus
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
1939

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Printing -- History

Personal Names

  • Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599
  • Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563
  • Greyff, Michael, d. ca. 1512
  • Grüninger, Johann, d. 1532?
  • Jenson, Nicolas, ca. 1420-1480
  • Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513
  • Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515
  • Plantin, Christophe, ca. 1520-1589.

Corporate Names

  • Doves Press
  • Golden Cockerel Press
  • Kelmscott Press