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...numbering more than 500. In many cases the whole page of the book is preserved, showing the cut in its setting on the page of text, an aid to the student of early printing. Included are examples from the chief centers of book-illustration in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; many were colored by hand in imitation of miniatures in manuscripts for which printed books were cheaper substitutes...
Appearing in the Harry Elkins Widener Room are a number of Bibles, prayer-books, and devotional books executed in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries...
...Warburg family derives its name from Warburg, a town in Westphalia, where Warburgs lived as long ago as 1400. At some time during the Sixteenth Century the family moved to Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...
January 15-The sixteenth century in Italy. France, and Germany...
January 18-The sixteenth century in Germany...