Johann Sebastian Bach, autograph letter signed, to his cousin Johann Elias Bach, Cantor at Schweinfurt. Leipzig, 6 October 1748. (Checklist no. 402) For g WILLIAM H. SCH EI DE F I F T Y Y E A R S OF C O L L E C T I N G 6 JANUARY 2 0 0 4 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Copyright © 2004 by Princeton University Library Published by Princeton University Library One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Cover design by Frank Mahood On the cover: Detail from Johannes Balbus, Catholicon. (manuscript on vellum, Augsburg, 1458) Photography by John Blazejewski Printed in the United States of America by Toppan Printing, Inc. CONTENTS Illustrations vii For William H. Scheide From the President 3 From the University Librarian 5 From Family and Friends 7 Fifty Years of Collecting Introduction 29 Checklist of Acquisitions 35 Manuscripts to 1500 39 Printing to 1500 45 Printing and Manuscripts after 1500 60 Music 88 ILLUSTRATIONS Johann Sebastian Bach, autograph letter signed, Leipzig, 6 October 1748 frontispiece William H. Scheide with Scheide Scholarship students 2 Psalterium. [Mainz]: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 14 August 1457 10 Latin Bible. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1460] 14 Latin Bible. [Bamberg: Albrecht Pfister?, not after 1461] 15 Pope Pius II, In Europam. Manuscript, c. 1480–1485 19 Johann Sebastian Bach, autograph score, Cantata 33 23 Psalter (Latin and Middle English). Manuscript, c. 1350–1400 26 Blood-letting Calendar for 1462. [Vienna? Ulrich Han?, 1461?] 31 Gospel of Matthew (Coptic). Manuscript, c. A.D. 400 39 Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana. Manuscript, c. A.D. 900 41 Old Testament (Hebrew). Manuscript, dated 5073 (= A.D. 1313) 42 Johannes Balbus, Catholicon. Manuscript, Augsburg, 1458 44 Passione di Cristo. [Northern Italy: Ulrich Han?, c. 1462–1463] 47 Guilelmus de Saliceto, De salute corporis. [The Netherlands: Prototypography Press, not after 1472] 50 Raoul Le Fevre, Recuyell of the historyes of Troye. [Bruges: William Caxton, 1473] 53 ILLUSTRATIONS viii Le doctrinal de sapience (English). Westminster: William Caxton, [after 7 May 1489] 58 Gabriel Harvey’s copy of Johannes de Sacrobosco, Libellus de anni ratione. Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1550 66 William Harvey, Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis. Frankfurt am Main: Guilelmus Fitzerus, 1628 73 [Lexington Alarm]. Philadelphia, April 26, 1775.... [Philadelphia: W. & T. Bradford, 26 April 1775] 83 Ludwig van Beethoven, autograph sketchbook. Vienna, 1815–1816 91 For WILLIAM H. SCHEIDE William H. Scheide with Scheide Scholarship students, March 2000. Photograph courtesy of Judith McCartin Scheide.
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