Word: vellum
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...Northern drawings are not so numerous. There is a brush drawing on vellum by Petrus Christus, and eight drawings by Durer, which alone would make the collection noteworthy. A few other drawings of the Flemish and German schools, including several drawings from engravings, make up the collection...
...strangest-looking exhibit in the collection is a book by Ambroise Firmin Didot, the most famous of a very illustrious family. It is bound in leather and printed on vellum, illustrated with small vignettes. It was printed in 1855 at Paris...
Among the purchases for the Gray Collection are: "The Triumph of Chastity," a fifteenth century Italian engraving; two wood-cuts of the Passion after Lucas Cranach; and an incunabulum, "Book of Hours," printed on vellum, and illustrated with relief engravings on metals...
...English and legal writer, whose "Les Tenures" is a very rare edition; a precious book, "Exposiciones i minorz legu Angloz," by John Rastell the English printer and author who served in Parliament in 1529; and a number of valuable manuscripts dealing with the Magna Charta, printed in vellum "by an English scribe," one of which was probably executed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. With these newly acquired copies of early English statutes, there was purchased a valuable collection of original prints of the statutes themselves...
...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...