Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University Library has just obtained some valuable old prints and manuscripts at a dealer's auction held last week in New York. Among the rarer and more valuable manuscripts is a large vellum sheet, giving patent letters of chivalry to Messire Angier de Busbeeq, and bearing the signature and seal of Emperor Ferdinand I. of Austria, dated April 3rd 1564. One of the most interesting works is Erasmus's "Commentaries of Cato's Moral Sayings for Children," published...
...connection with these lectures, a small collection of books handsomely bound in colored leather and vellum, printed and decorated under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's personal supervision, are on public exhibition in the Treasure Room of Gore Hall, together with a few select works on book-binding and its history. This room will be open every afternoon during the next ten days from 2 until 5.30 o'clock...
...Friday, December 6, and on Monday and Wednesday, December 9 and 11. They will be more technical in character, and will relate respectively to the "Forwarding and Binding of the Book Beautiful," "Tooling and Decoration," and "Printing," together with a few suggestions on the manufacture and use of paper, vellum...
...Decoration of the Book Beautiful," including pattern making. The third of these technical lectures, the last of the whole course, will be on the printing of the book. It will include the invention of the alphabet and of printing, and also the manufacture and use of the paper, vellum, and other materials. These lectures will be open to the public...
...Semitic Museum has recently acquired a collection of about 125 Syriac manuscripts. Although some are modern copies on paper, others are old manuscripts on parchment and vellum. These manuscripts go back to the twelfth century and even to the Bible. The collection was made by Professor J. Rendel Harris of England, one of the foremost scholars in Syriac studies...