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Wave & way. [Part 5]

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Description: Poem by Elwin Volk written on 12 gold paper leaves mounted on paper. Each leaf is preceeded by a title card: "Wave & way by Elwin Volk" which are numbered in Greek letters from A-M. Two colophon leaves make up the end. The final leaf is also written on gold paper. Composed as part 5 of a poetical work Wave and way.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [1942?]
Call number: 642228
Creator: Volk, Elwin(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown, in library as of, 1942?
Dimensions: 78 cm
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Cipher Book #5

Manuscripts

40 pages; 16 x 9 cm. Title supplied by cataloger. On fly leaf: 5. On verso of page 1: 5. Laid inside the book are directions for use of No. 4 & 5 cipher on a yellow carbon paper sheet.

EC 58

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40 pages; 16 x 9 cm. Title supplied by cataloger. Laid inside is a letter by W. I. Gross, Headquarters Military Division of Gulf, New Orleans, La., to Charles W. Moore, Cipher Clerk, Mobile, Ala., April 28, 1866; also there are directions for use of codes nos. 4 & 5 on yellow carbon paper. On fly leaf: No. 5.

EC 64

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Cipher Book #5

Manuscripts

40 pages; 16 x 9 cm. Title supplied by cataloger. On inside front cover: Returned from Detroit, Apr. 24, 1869. Laid inside the front cover are directions for use, 6 pages, entitled "Rules for the use of Govt. Cipher No. 5" on yellow carbon paper. On fly leaf: Chas. A. Tinker, Manager War Dept. Tel. Ofs. Handwritten on verso of page 1: No. 5.

EC 49

Hier beghint een loue goods een ghenoechlick profitelic boec ghehieten Dyalogus creaturarum dat is twijspraeck der creaturen ouer gheset wtten latinen in goede[n] duytsche

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Translation of Dialogus creaturarum into Dutch. Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.1 x 18.6 cm. Text in one column. Woodcut border on leaf b1r. Printer's device above colophon. Signatures: a⁶ b-q⁸. Imperfect: leaf b1 trimmed, with some loss of the woodcut border. Occasional leaves have rubrication and illustrations traced in red. Binding: brown morocco.

100601

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Cipher Book #5

Manuscripts

40 pages; 16 x 9 cm. Title supplied by cataloger. Glued to inside front cover is a list of cipher holds. Glued to the front fly leaf: Memorandum Index. On verso of page 1: No. 5. Laid inside the book in an envelope labeled: Rules for working Cipher "No. 5". Envelope has printed on it: War Department, Official Business, Assistant Secretary of War. The rules are written on yellow paper, same as EC 49, six pages.

EC 60

Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum]

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An English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum by John Trevisa. Title page is xylographic (white on black). Caption title on leaf A2r reads: Prologue of the translatour. True it is· that after the noble [and] experte doctryne . The last leaf contains William Caxton's device, and on the verso a copy of the title-page cut. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.9 x 21.2 cm. Text in two columns. Woodcut initials. Signatures: A⁶ B⁸ b⁶ c-z⁸ [et]⁶ [con]⁸ A-V⁸ X-Z⁶ 2a-2c⁸ 2d-2g⁶ 2h-2m⁸ 2n⁴ 2o⁶. Huntington Library copy has gathering A inlaid. Imperfect: leaf A1 (blank) lacking; leaves 2o4-2o6 repaired at inner margin. Binding: richly inlaid and onlaid brown morocco by the Club Bindery, Leon Maillard, finisher. In case.

82741

Wave & way. [Part 5]

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