Robert D. Farber University Archives &
Special Collections Department

Top: Book label, c. 1540, once affixed to a book belonging to the monks of Himmerod Abbey in Germany. Iste liber pertinet [c]o[n]ventui cruciferor[um] in valle S. Mathie al[ia] nigrepaludis dicto sito in territorio meroden[sis] prope dueren.... [This book belongs to the convent of the cross-bearers in the valley of Saint Matthias, also called the black swamp, situated in the territory of [Him]merod, near Düren....]
Below: Manuscript leaf inserted into Bap. Platinae Cremonensis De vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum, an edition of the works of Bartolomeo Sacchi de Platina published in 1540 in Cologne, Germany, from which the bookplate came.