Browse Items (45 total)

  • Collection: Rare Books and Special Materials

Palm Leaf Sandwich-type Manuscript [original]

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Binding: good ; wooden boards and leaves have two holes through which they would have been bound with string or cord

Protective case: wrapped in paper and kept in a case

Leaves: good ; palm leaves ; fragile (brittle) ; text on both sides ;…

Title Unknown, leather-bound book [original]

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Binding: good ; bound in wooden boards covered loosely with brown leather ; leather shows some wear including rubbing and a few holes

Spine: good ; brown leather ; no decoration

Leaves: fair to good ; pages are very fragile ; some are damaged…

Medieval Text, single sheet [original]

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Good condition ; some discolouration ; some tearing ; two holes ; marginalia ; rubrication

One-year Lease of Property [original]

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Binding: protected ; loosely sewn into protective paper folder housed between two sheets of Bristol board

Leaves: very good to near fine ; appears to be vellum ; one corner has some damage (tear) ; the terms of the lease are handwritten ;…

Don Quixote de la Mancha [facsimile]

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Bindings: good ; vellum with leather and gold tooling (it appears) ; brass clasps ; spine has separated from material and front cover on third edition ; separating from cover of another ; marbled end papers ; reproduced using photo-typography…