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Falsely attributed to St. Albertus Magnus (c. 1206–1280), the "Secrets of Women and Men" was compiled from a variety of Western and Arabic treatises on medicine and astrology. This text shows the primitive state of medicine at the time through its…

Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…

Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…

Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…

Parts I and II of the four-part Doctrinale puerorum, a primary textbook used during the late Middle Ages. Labels and inscriptions identify the books as property of the Benedictine Abbey at Melk.

Papal Bull confirming possessions of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France.

Papal Bull confirming privileges and domains of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France.

Papal Bull confirming privileges and domains of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France. The scribe set off the formal preamble in majestic elongated letters, and beneath the main text added the circular…

Letter from Robert Alexander to Littleton Fowler, two members tasked with leading the Texas Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church missionaries. In this letter, Alexander discusses Ruter's death, funeral, and gravesite.

First printed Turkish translation of the New Testament. Originally translated by Ali Bey (Albertus Bobowsky) in 1666.

First edition of the Danish translation of the Lutheran Bible includes illustrations from woodcuts by Erhard Altdorfer (c. 1485–1561).

The immediate impact of Dürer’s St. Jerome frontispiece of 1492 is evident in this woodcut of St. Ambrose, printed in Basel later the same year. Similar to the St. Jerome in conception but less sophisticated in its placement of objects on the floor,…

Bound by a follower of skilled master Conradus de Argentina. This book has eighteen blind stamps which are attributed to de Argentina's followers. The binding might have been done by a follower who later utilized de Argentina's tools.

Early translations of the Bible and portions of the Bible were completed as early as seventh century CE, but until the 1800s, it was difficult to create translations that survived. This particular translation features English and Chinese in parallel…

This set of fifty volumes was published by the American Sunday-School Union in the mid-nineteenth century. The first twenty-five volumes each include two texts, with a separate title page and pagination for each work; the final twenty-five volumes…

Ames' theological work composed of two parts: Puritan systematic theology and virtuous Christian life.

Hieroglyphic Bible with engravings and reproduced using stereotyping.

Modified split board structure in a style developed by Jan Sobota, acrylic hand-painted leather cover, green textured sheepskin on interior boards. Complementary leather cord headbands, alcohol paper endsheets created specifically for this binding,…

Suor Isabella Piccini engraved this portrayal of St. Teresa of Ávila in 1720, when the plate was used as the frontispiece for the first edition of the saint’s “Spiritual Advice.”

This large folding triptych is a cartagloria, an illuminated manuscript bearing essential Latin texts for the Mass ceremony. The central miniature of the triptych replicates Leonardo da Vinci's fresco of the Last Supper at the Dominican Convent of…

This large folding triptych is a cartagloria, an illuminated manuscript bearing essential Latin texts for the Mass ceremony. The central miniature of the triptych replicates Leonardo da Vinci's fresco of the Last Supper at the Dominican Convent of…

14 etchings of the stations of the cross, each chapter is devoted to a single Station and includes in addition to the illustration a brief introduction, a prayer, and a hymn.

This novena to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the only recorded copy, is composed in verse with each page of text presented within a double-rule border.

First edition of the most influential confession manual of the fifteenth century.

Dürer’s closest friend, Wilibald Pirckheimer (1470–1530), was Nuremberg’s leading humanist scholar. As a favor to Pirckheimer, Dürer designed the armorial bookplate that the scholar pasted into his books, including this copy of a popular…
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