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While in technical terms these materials are manuscripts rather than printed books, they are included in description here due to the expectation of many researchers to find all bound works with the rare book collections. Many of the landmarks in the history of recorded communication between people are represented in SCRC holdings from cuneiform tablet to papyrus scrolls. The earliest printed item is a Buddhist scroll from the 9th century and other early materials include several codices dating from the 11th century.
There is also a small but significant holding of medieval illuminated manuscripts of Spanish, English, Italian, French, Flemish, and German/Austrian origin which range in date from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries.
Amongst these are:
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Six richly illuminated Books of Hours
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A partial Old Testament which consists of fragments of the books of Tobit and Esther and a complete Book of Judith
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An apocalyptic text by Telesphorus
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Glossed decretals of popes Innocent IV and Gregory IX
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A Dominican gradual of saints.
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Le Louchier Hours; The Syracuse Hours;
France, post-1450, Latin with French rubrics.
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