Box 2

The writer spent 22 years of his life working on the book from which this leaf came. Almost every color is used in addition to solid gold leaf. He finished his work at 4:00 pm in the afternoon, March 22, 1207. The red lettering is in Persian, and the black words are Arabic. The book was found in Tehran, Iran in 1952 by Stanley S. Slotkin, and before disassembly was appraised for $25,000.

Medieval manuscript leaf on vellum. In Latin, possibly from a late 13th century northern French Bible. Double columns, 64-5 lines in gothic hand, running title/chapter initials in red and blue. Probably dispersed by Otto Edge.

An excised fragment of De Evangelica Praeparatione by Eusebius Caesariensis. Tr: Georgius Trapezuntius. [Cologne: Ulric Zell, ca. 1473-1474].

William Caxton printing. Leaf 306 from the first Caxton edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Monk's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales. 2 pages (29 lines each) in Caxton's type no. 2. Cut down and framed. Westminster, 1476.

[Leaf 312 of Bible?]. Text in two columns with paragraph marks in red and blue ink. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1479].

Leaf CCLII from the German edition of Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (or Weltchronik) printed by Anton Koberger. Hand-colored woodcut illustrations from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut.

Unidentified fragment, probably from a book. Latin text in two columns.

Codicis Justiniani Liber Undecimus from Italy or southern France.

Unidentified fragment. Black letter type with black and red ink.

Unidentified fragment. Black letter type with black and red ink.