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...Library's collection of Florentine picture books is made up of the Savonarola collection, the collection of Sacre Rappresentazioni, and the Newman and Fairfax Murray collections. Florentine picture books are ilustrated by fifteenth and sixteenth country woodcuts, which represent the story of Italian book illustration. They are, with only a few exceptions, small quartos of only a few leaves each. They are religious books, plays and books of popular poems books largely for religious instruction and pictures were used not so much to illustrate particular passages as to inspire the reader with a feeling of devotion. The illustrations are complete...
Published in 1520 in Paris by a certain William Le Rouihe, the book is entitled "Justice and Injustice", and is a treatise on sixteenth century laws. It contains six full page woodcuts, five showing early criminal courts and one an allegory on justice. In all there are about 100 pages, printed in French...
Today however the freedom of the port seems to have been extended to include a freedom of action in transit which involves great inconvenience and annoyance to other travellers. Irritating as it must have been to the sixteenth century tourist to see the Heidelberg boys of the day going through the custom house Scot free, this feeling is hardly to be classed with the reaction of the honest Cambridge citizen returning from the great city showered in Stygian darkness with ground glass...
...Recent Trends to Parliamentary in stitutions". Professor Grimth. Sever 19 "Science and Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century". Professor Whitehead. Emersoa...
...Many of our most hidebound notions about the curriculum are the results of accidental happenings back in the sixteenth century. . . . What the ordinary curriculum today represents is simply the accumulated debris of the past three or four hundred years of hit-or-miss instruction...