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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

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts

Egyptian Book of the Dead, ca. 800 BCE

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 004

Scope and Content From the Series:

This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.

Dates: ca. 800 BCE

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

Greek papyrus, ca. 100 BCE - 100 CE

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 005

Scope and Content From the Series:

This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.

Dates: ca. 100 BCE - 100 CE

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

Arabic papyrus, ca. 800-899

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 006

Scope and Content From the Series:

This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.

Dates: ca. 800-899

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

The Quran, ca. 1100-1199

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 007

Scope and content

Style suggests calligraphy of Mashad, Persia, but may have come from Saudi Arabia or Egypt

Dates: ca. 1100-1199

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

Catholic Church liturgical fragment, ca. 1100-1199

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 008

Scope and Content From the Series:

This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.

Dates: ca. 1100-1199

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

Liturgical book, ca. 1200-1299

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 009

Scope and Content From the Series:

This series contains materials where the primary method of inscription is by hand.

Dates: ca. 1200-1299

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

Prayers of the mass, ca. 1300-1399

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 010

Scope and contents

Originally of 600 page manuscript inscribed by Spanish Carthusian monks.

Dates: ca. 1300-1399

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

Sermones, 1434

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: ITEM 011

Scope and content

Prepared in the Scriptorium of the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim, Germany.

Dates: 1434

Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / SCA-0053, Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts / Manuscripts

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Contains 31 Results:

Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts

Manuscripts

Egyptian Book of the Dead, ca. 800 BCE

Greek papyrus, ca. 100 BCE - 100 CE

Arabic papyrus, ca. 800-899

The Quran, ca. 1100-1199

Catholic Church liturgical fragment, ca. 1100-1199

Liturgical book, ca. 1200-1299

Prayers of the mass, ca. 1300-1399

Sermones, 1434

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