Box 1
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Manuscripts
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series I:
Scope and Content
This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.
Dates:
circa 2300 BCE – 1937 CE, bulk 1400 – 1850 ; Majority of material found within 1400 - 1850
Cuneiform clay tablet, ca. 2300 - 2100 BCE
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: ITEM 001
Scope and Content
From the Series:
This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.
Dates:
ca. 2300 - 2100 BCE
Bablylonian cylinder seal, ca. 1700 BCE
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: ITEM 002
Scope and Content
From the Series:
This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.
Dates:
ca. 1700 BCE
Egyptian scarab, ca. 1000 BCE
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: ITEM 003
Scope and Content
From the Series:
This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.
Dates:
ca. 1000 BCE
Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0053
Abstract
This collection contains 150 objects from a portfolio set of “Pages From the Past”, collected and distributed by the now-defunct Society of Foliophiles in New York. They are individual leaves from original printed books and manuscripts in several languages, providing a compact yet extensive history of Western bookmaking from ancient Sumeria to the twentieth-century United States.
Dates:
circa 2300 BCE – 1937 CE, bulk 1400 – 1850 ; Majority of material found within 1400 - 1850
