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Wu gou jing guang jing zi xin yin tuo luo ni

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Description: One of the four texts of Hyakumantō darani printed by order of the Empress Shōtoku in the years of Tenpyō Hōji 8-Jingo Keiun 4 [764-770]; text consists of 31 lines, 5 characters per line (58 x 395 mm.), placed in wooden pagoda (103 x 215 mm). Considered one of the world's oldest extant printed matter.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [between 764 and 770?]
Call number: 653894
Provenance: Purchased from P.D. Perkins, January 1956.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED - Fragile. Cannot be paged, imaged or reproduced without conservator review. Use of original may require special handling instructions and extended retrieval and delivery time.; RESTRICTED - Lead warning: The original white paint on the pagoda and spire probably contained lead. Handle with caution. Do not unroll scroll without assistance from Conservation.

Forma confessionalis

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Xylographic broadside: 23 lines, including 2 headlines; area of text: 130 x 233 mm. Headlines read "Forma confessionalis." (line 1) and "Forma absolutionis." (line 15). One printed paragraph mark (line 22). At the end of line 2, space has been left for the name of the recipient; in the preceding phrase "Qualiter deuot in [Christ]o" space has been left to decline the adjective. At the end of line 14, space has been left to complete the date of issue. Imprint from Schreiber. Cat. of books printed in the 15th c. now in the Bodleian Lib. assigns to the workshop of Johann Blaubirer in Augsburg.

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Cactus garden portfolio, Huntington Gardens

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Collection of 13 photographs by artist and photographer Christine Laptuta. Collection contents: 12 black-and-white, platinum and palladium prints depicting eye-level views of cactus and other plants in the Desert Garden of the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The prints were made by contact printing strips of 120 mm film made with a Holga camera. These images are approximately 2.25 x 13 inches and smaller. In addition, there is one very large panoramic print created by digitally scanning the film to create an archival pigment print measuring 19 x 110.5 inches.

photCL 525

Fanchon & Marco, Volume 3

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103 album pages, each with four photographs per page, depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed around 1929. There is also one 8 x 10 inch group portrait of individuals including Fanchon Wolff and Marco Wolff, photCL 487 vol 3 (103). Identified photographers include Harry Wenger and Paralta of Los Angeles. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 3 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

photCL 487

Questiones subtilissime Iohannis Sermonete super lib[rum] afforismo[rum] eiusdem super librum tegni

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A commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms and Galen's Tegni; some fragments of Hippocrates's text, translated into Latin, are included. Edited by Johannes Antonius Terzagus. The commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms is incomplete: although the signed gatherings agree with the printed register and the text between 2C8v and 2D1r is consistent, the text between 2D6v (which ends with "morbus aut") and 2E1r (which begins the commentary on Galen's Tegni) is not. Super-chancery folio, with paper measuring 31.9 x 21.4 cm. Text printed in 2 columns; 66 lines per column; col. width: 7.8 mm.; area of text: 24.1 x 16.3 cm. With paragraph marks, headlines, and woodcut initials; without catchwords. Publisher's device on verso of leaf 73. Foliation errors: leaves 30 and 49 misnumbered as 32 and 49, respectively. Signatures: 2A-2C⁸ 2D⁶ 2E-2H⁸ 2I-2K⁶ (2K6 blank). Modern binding using a leaf from a medieval Italian[?] antiphonal manuscript as covering.

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Four reports on the inspection and progress of the construction of the Western Pacific Railroad

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Each of the four reports consists of a typescript summary, followed by 3" x 5" black and white photogrpahs mounted 2 to a page. The reports are as follows: (1) August 4, 1906, 30 pages of text, 66 photographs. (2) May 9, 1907, 19 pages of text, 12 of 16 photographs (one leaf excised, 2 photos not present). (3) November 29, 1907, 29 pages of text, 32 photographs. (4) July 8, 1908, 36 pages of text, 102 of 103 photographs. The photographs were apparently taken by P.S. Hildreth, and the reports were submitted to the syndicate managers. There are a few ms. additions. Two of the four reports have a typed "In Triplicate" note at the end of the text.

mssHM 82552

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Clausula de las cosas mal habidas

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Imprint from ISTC. Assigned to Valencia in Goff. On the location of the press see BMC X p.xlvii & lxiii. Signatures: [a]². Leaves printed on one side only

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