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Booklet describing how Southern Methodist University (SMU) became the first major southern institution to desegregate voluntarily.

This hymn, with its beautiful woodcut engraving of Saint Philip of Jesus to whom it is dedicated, describes the fate of the Mexican-born member of the Franciscan order who was martyred in Japan in 1597. St. Philip is known as the patron saint of…

A translation of The Brazen Serpent into Urdu, here identified as Hindustani, which is widely used in Pakistan and northern India. This was the sixth religious text translated into Hindustani at the time. "The Brazen Serpent" was the title for…

First edition of the Imitatio Christi. The Imitatio Christi is the classic expression of the Devotio Moderna, or "modern devotion," a movement that responded to the widespread need for deepened spiritual life in the years before the Reformation. It…

The tavern proprietor, long clay pipe in hand, gazes at an undertaker who sips delicately perhaps awaiting his next client.

The text of the Psalms, printed in large letters, is surrounded with commentary by David ben Joseph Ḳimḥi (c. 1160-c. 1235) in smaller types. A Christian censor used ink and small sheets of paper to omit words from commentary and entire passages.

29 engraved plates illustrating the life of Saint Philip of Jesus.

29 engraved plates illustrating the life of Saint Philip of Jesus.

Devotional object that consists of a printed hinged box filled with 147 small rolled slips of paper bearing printed texts for Christian meditation. Each slip in Promise, Prayer, Poetry provides three quotations. The first is always a Bible verse. The…

Pamphlet of a novena for the faithful to complete the prayers in exchange for an indulgence. On the final page, bishop José María de Jesús Belaunzarán concedes 200 days of indulgence for every word contained in this novena to those who read it…

Illustrated book about the art of Abraham Rattner

A thirteenth century Jewish Gnostic text illustrated with twenty-two preexistent letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Commentary on the Passover Haggadah written in Italy and it was first published at Constantinople in 1506. This copy was expurgated and signed by two 17th century censors.

Rabbi Abravenel's commentary on the Hebrew Haggadah was written in Italy. Venetian law did not permit Jews to own or operate printing presses so this second edition was printed by a Christian printer. The final leaf, dated 1617, has the signatures of…

This brief devotional text in Spanish, intended to focus meditation on the sufferings of Christ and the sorrows of the Virgin Mary, was approved by Mexico City's Franciscan Order for publication at the Hogal press. Although the text had appeared in…

A heroic poem on the theme of the biblical King David. Dedicated to Maria Maddalena de' Medici, the Archduchess of Austria and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, the poem also included flattering allusions to contemporary Florentine nobles.

a pair of undulating wall reliefs

Illustrating the Origin and Chronology of the various Religious Denominations of the World from the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to the Present Time as recorded by the best Authorities.

English Bible with wood engravings.

One of 40 printed copies. This printing of the Song of Songs features decorative typeface along with illumination.

In 1901, Charles H. St. John Hornsby hired Florence Kingsford to illuminate 44 copies of the Ashendene Press edition of the Song of Songs, each with a different design. Bridwell Library's copy of the Ashendene Song of Songs, illuminated by Florence…

History of the Trinity United Methodist Church in El Paso, TX. Kate Warnick Local Church History Award winner-Large Church Division, 1976–1977.

Letter from Jane Addams to John Vincent for his 70th birthday congratulating him on the founding of Chautauqua and his impact on others.

A French style binding with laced-on boards. The top edge is graphite with hand sewn silk endbands, covered in "coke" gray buffalo leather with onlays of emery paper and aluminum screen. The book would be housed in a matching leather clamshell box.…