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Miscellaneous artifacts, mostly related to writing or printing and including such things as papyrus fragments, palm-leaf manuscripts, medals, seals, playing cards, old eye glasses and pens, Arabic scrolls, print blocks, including six by Theodor Jung, and two marble (alabaster?) busts, one of Charles Dickens and one of Dante, nd.

Nearly complete leaf with the life of St. Bartholomew from a Vitae Sanctorum, or collection of saints' lives. Written in double columns of late Carolingian script, brown ink, 37 lines, ruled lightly with plummet; a trivial crease on one side from use in a binding, the top line of text trimmed, otherwise in excellent condition. The identifier "M623" is written in pencil in the bottom right corner of the recto.

Includes leaves from medieval manuscripts (some with illumination), early examples of typography, 18th and 19th century engravings, 19th century photograph albums, and 20th century illuminated manuscripts.

Deeds, including conveyances, assignments, leases, and mortgages.

Johannes during the reign of Henry V, 8 July ...

Facsimiles of letters by Joan of Arc, the Marquis de Lafayette, Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie-Antoinette, Robespierre, Lord Nelson, Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Probably including over 15,000 bookplates, the collection is currently arranged in many groupings such as by subject of plate, place, ownership, previous collector, artist/designer, etc. Included is the second oldest known bookplate, a 15th century German manuscript, as well as specific collections of American presidents, authors, famous actors and actresses, royalty, etc. Also included are reference files and correspondence with dealers and collectors.

A miscellaneous collection of English documents form many sources, arranged in chronological order according to the dates of the documents.

Photographic prints from the Samuel I. and Cecile M. Barchas collection include the following scientists: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Peter Apian, F. Arago, Aristotle, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, F.W. Bessel, Johann Elert Bode, Robert Boyle, James Bradley, Tycho Brahe, David Brewster, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolaus Copernicus, Humphry Davy, J.B. Delambre, René Descartes, John Dollond, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, John Flamsteed, M. de Fontenelle, Jean Baptiste Fourier, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Pierre Gassendi, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Edmond Halley, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, J. L. Lagrange, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Pierre Simon Laplace, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, U. J. Le Verrier, Nevil Maskelyne, Gerhard Mercator, Charles Messier, Isaac Newton, W. Olbers, Ptolemy, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Angelo Secchi, Edwin A. Stevens. James Watt.
One of the prints is unidentified. Biographical sketches from the periodical, The popular science monthly, are about Angelo Secchi, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Caroline Lucretia Herschel; another insert is about David Brewster. Artists and printmakers are also identified. These include: Pierre-Michel Alix, Charles Beaubrun, Julien-Léopold Boilly, Louis, Boilly, Johann Friedrich Bolt, Johann Theodor de Bry, Nicholas Gabriel Dupuis, William Thomas Fry, Jules Gaildrau, Franz Gareis, Johann Elias Haid, Frans Hals, Benjamin Holl, William Holl, Thomas Hudson, Godfrey Kneller, Thomas, Lawrence, James Lonsdale, Frederick Mackenzie, Jean Denis Nargeot, James Posselwhite, Henry Raeburn, Denis Auguste Marie Raffett, John Russell, Edward Scriven, Ambroise Tardieu, James Thomson, Charles Albert Waltner.