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Scope and content note The collection includes twenty-four individual leaves representing the history of books from early manuscript leaves on vellum to printed texts on biblical, legal and natural history subjects. Most leaves are in Latin, although French, German and English are included with one leaf in Arablic and Persian. Almost every leaf is accompanied by an oversize sheet of paper, created by Slotkin, which includes a facsimile of the title page of the book from which the leaf was removed, as well as a...