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A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle
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On spine: Fysshynge wyth an angle.
"Printed ... after the text of the Boke of St Albans 'enprynted at Westmestre by Wynkyn the Worde ... MCCCCLxxxxvi.' This edition consists of 150 copies on paper ... and 25 copies on vellum." This copy printed on paper.
Set in type by Sir John Hornby and Meysey Turton and printed by the first named.
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Anakreontos Tēiou melē
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Title in Greek characters, transliterated; text in Latin and Greek., Printer's device on title page., Renouard, 115.1; Adams, A-1001; Sandys, II, 176., "Anacreon was one of the nine lyric poets whom the scholars of the Library of Alexandria judged to be worthy of close study. Though a native of the city of Teos, he spent much of his career at the courts of the tyrants Polycrates of Samos and Hipparchus of Athens, where he was particularly esteemed for his drinking songs and hymns. This edition of Anacreon’s poems was printed by Henri Estienne, part of the Estienne (or Stephanus) printing dynasty. It features the famous Grecs du roi typeface, designed by Claude Garamond for King Francis I of France"--MU Libraries Special Collections.
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Aristotelous Peri kosmou, pros Alexandrou
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ESTC: "The attribution to Aristotle is doubtful.", First five words of title transliterated from Greek., First and last leaves blank?; lacking in IU copy. IU-R., ESTC, T149817., Latin and Greek text., "Though long attributed to Aristotle, the De mundo (On the Universe) is the work of an unknown philosopher who probably lived within a hundred or so years of Aristotle’s death in 322 BCE. This edition of the De mundo was printed by the Scottish printer Robert Foulis, whose books are among the most technically accomplished of the 18th century. Appointed printer to Glasgow University in 1743, Foulis went on to become one of the most important printers of the Scottish Enlightenment"--MU Libraries Special Collections.
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Book of hours (use of Rome)
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A nearly complete fifteenth-century Book of Hours from the Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. In addition to the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, and Office of the Dead, the manuscript contains unusual Marian litanies., Fols. 109v: Pars prima. Graded kalendar beginning with March. Dominican saints Dominic and Peter Martyr in red, alongside the Venetian saints George and Mark, as well as SS. John and Paul. Curious are Pelagia the Courtesan and Sabba -- Fol. 10r: Latin prayer, inc. "Deus qui ad imitandum," added to an orginally blank folio -- Fols. 10v-122v: Officium Beate Marie, of Dominican Use; fol. 10v Matins, 35r Lauds, 63 Prime, 72r Terce, 79r Sext, 85v none, 93 Vespers, 108r Compline -- Fol. 11: Blank, a replacement for a missing illuminated folio ; fols. 119r-122v: Seasonal instructions -- Fols. 123r-223v: Office of the Dead, for Dominican use -- Fols. 224r-244v: Penitential psalms -- Fols. 245r-257v: Kyrie and litany with ancillary texts -- Fols. 258r-261v: Prayers -- Fols. 261v-267r: Shorter Office of the Cross -- Fols. 267r-270v: Added texts, including indulgenced prayers -- Fols. 271r-294r: Pars secunda. Office of the Glorious Virgin = Officium gloriose virginis, not to be confused with the Office of the Virgin found at the beginning of the manuscript -- Fols. 294r-309r: Marian litany : Seventy names of the Virgin, with prayer for male use -- Fols. 309r-322r: Marian litany in honor of the most glorious Virgin -- Fols. 322v-330v: Prayers in Italian., Title supplied by cataloger., This manuscript has two sections, the second having been added to the first within a generation of the book's manufacture. The first section of the manuscript (fols. 1-270) contains a standard Italian Dominican Book of Hours with a kalendar, Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Office of the Dead, Penitential psalms, and Short Hours of the Cross. Exceptionally, unusual, however, are the contents of section two, which opens with a rare Office of the Glorious Virgin, followed by two Marian litanies. Such litanies multiplied in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these follow the standard pattern of calling on the Virgin by her attributes, as a mother, brides, spouse, intercessor, etc. The Italian prayers at the end of the volume perfectly express vernacular piety in Venice around 1500., Collation: ii + I⁶ (wants 1,2,5) + II⁸ (wants the original final folio. 7 originally blank with an added prayer; 88 a modern vellum replacement, blank) + III⁸ (wants 1) + IV⁸ - XXXV⁸ + XXXVI⁴ (one leaf missing between XXXV and XXXVI) + XXXVII¹⁰ (beginning of added section) - XLIII¹⁰. Only five folios appear to be missing., 10 lines (first part), 16 lines (kalendar), 11 lines (second part). On parchment., Written in diminutive, elegant Gothic bookhand, with occasional cadels on the penwork (one enclosing a smiling human face on fol. 82v). Catchwords throughout, some decorative. Written on parchment., Decoration: Fols. 122r, 224r, 260v have three large painted initials in pink on gold backgrounds with elaborate marginal extensions in blue, red, green, and pink, highlighted by gold bezants, and having infilled interiors (one with a gold cross, 260v); fols. 35v, 63r, 72r, 79r, 85v, 92v, 108r, 140v, 198v all have large multi-line initials in red or blue with elaborate contrasting penwork ; dozens of two-line initials in red or blue with elaborate contrasting penwork trailing in the margins ; hundreds of one-line initials alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork., Stitch holes on folio 140 suggest that a devotional relic was once sewn into this page., Text in Latin with some prayers in Italian., Binding: 18th-century full brown calf over pasteboard with a gilt stamp of the Virgin holding the Christ Child. The straps are missing, but all the brass mounts are still present. The spine was re-backed in the nineteenth century and retains the eighteenth-century cover with raised bands. Binding was recently professionally renewed., Provenance: Abbey Church of SS. John and Paul (Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo or San Zanipolo), Venice, quite possibly from the time of the manuscript's execution near the end of the fifteenth century; the name "Sanera" or "Sanen" and a date, "A[nno] 1320 Circ."; John Chapple, probably the author of A short history of the Abbey Church of St. Alban (1882). Purchased from King Alfred's Notebook [bookseller], Cayce, South Carolina, March 2015., Title on bookseller's invoice: Devotions from a Venetian convent
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Buchholzschnitt im 15. Jahrhundert in Original-Beispielen. : 55 Inkunabelproben
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Plates from:
Author: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig, 1855-1932.
Title: Der Buchholzschnitt im 15. Jahrhundert in Original-Beispielen. : 55 Inkunabelproben: Deutscher, Schweizer, Niederländischer, Tschechischer und Italienischer Pressen.
Published: München : Weiss, 1929.
Notes: In portfolio. Limited edition. 100 copies; 50 have a German text and 50 have an English text.
WorldCat number: 12002508
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Comedia en tres actos, Por la puente, Juana
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Contributors:
-Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 (Primary Contributor)
-Rare Book Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries) (Contributor)
Image capture notes:
-Pagination error marking pg. 16 as pg.61.
-Some text goes into the gutter.
-Cover was bound at an angle.
Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449102/datastream/PDF/view
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Comedias famosas, volume 2
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Handwritten notes just inside the front cover, source unknown; added at end of digitized extent, NOTE: Duplicated pages at end of book (p0450.tiff through p0457.tif) are present in the physical item and not an error in digitization.
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Confederate Currency Collection
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In 1912, the United States Treasury department gifted the University of Missouri libraries a collection of bills from the Confederate States of America. This collection includes 135 monetary notes, all using the Criswell Numbering System.
“Confederate currency was first issued at the beginning of the Civil War and used widely in the South as a legitimate means to purchase goods and services. Some currency was printed by the Confederate States of America as a whole, some by individual states, and some by private banks. The bills in our collection were all issued by the Confederate States of America. Due to various printers, confederate currency tended to vary from printing to printing and state to state. Bills issued by the C.S.A. were hand signed and individually numbered by the Treasurer and Register, however, the duty became taxing with the number of bills produced, so secretaries were hired to sign the bills in later printings. It was not uncommon for notes to be printed on a single side or cut unevenly. Ultimately, by the end of the war, Confederate currency was nearly worthless, in part due to forgery as well as the loss of confidence in the Confederacy” (MU Special Collections Website)
This collection includes 50 cent, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollar bills. All the bills in this collection were printed in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. They were printed from 1861 – 1864 and were signed by a variety of treasurers and registers. The bills are in various physical conditions, with many having wrinkles, holes, stains, and tears. Images on the bills included many famous Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis, R.M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin, and Lucy Pickens. They also depicted symbols and figures the Confederacy considered important, such as bales of cotton, the goddess of war Minerva, and the capital building in Richmond, Virginia.
This collection was digitized in November of 2019 using a Plustek OpticBook A3000 Plus. They were cropped and straightened using Adobe Photoshop. Photos are in color with an optical resolution of 600 dpi.
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Cuneiform Tablets (Collection)
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Special Collections holds eight cuneiform tablets whose exact provenance is unknown. Seven of the tablets were donated to MU Libraries by the now-defunct Ernest McClary Todd Museum, formerly a part of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. They probably came to the University in the early twentieth century.
Tablet MULC 8 (Z113 .P3 1#1 item 1a) was acquired as part of the Pages from the Past collection, which was a portfolio of leaves and artifacts sold by Foliophiles in the 1960s.
Six of the tablets date from the Ur III period (2100-2000 BCE), are written in Sumerian, and most likely come from the Umma and Drehem archives. Identifications, translations, and dates for these six tablets were determined in 2012 by Changyu Liu of the University of Heidelberg.
The remaining two tablets are thought to be from the Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BCE) and are currently unedited.
Images and complete information about the tablets can be accessed at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at the University of California Los Angeles. High resolution scans are available to researchers; email: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu
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Dear mother at the door: song
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Words by Samuel B. Letson / Music by Claribel, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A438471/datastream/PDF/view
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