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• 4. Dating to circa 1325, this description in verse of the life of the martyred St. Margaret of Antioch is from a Book of Hours from Picardy, France. The illuminated leaves are on vellum, and the text is in Old French rhyming couplets.
• 1. This Italian choir book, which dates to the early 1500s, is part of a series containing music for the Offices of the Saints (lessons, hymns and other liturgical passages special to the saints’ feasts). The book is bound in the original leather, and wood boards heavily studded with brass.
• 5. The first minutes book of the U.Va. Board of Visitors, May 5, 1817, to July 24, 1828, carries the signatures of three U.S. presidents—James Madison, James Monroe and, of course, Thomas Jefferson. The minutes up to the meeting of April 7, 1826, are in Jefferson’s hand; the announcement of his death in July is the sole entry for the Oct. 2, 1826, meeting.
• 2. Leaves of Grass established Walt Whitman’s reputation in the literary world, and this first edition printing, dated 1855, Brooklyn, N.Y., carries his handwritten copyright notice on the verso of the title page.
• 6. Jefferson gave the Marquis de Lafayette this “presentation copy” of the first printing of Notes on the State of Virginia, written in 1781, then corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782. Jefferson includes this request: “Unwilling to expose these sheets to the public eye, the writer begs the favor of the Marquis to put them into the hands of no person whose care and fidelity he cannot rely to guard them against publication.”
• 3. Considered a great achievement in 18th-century art and science, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby contains the figures of “birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects and plants.” Published in 1754, it was the first illustrated work of American natural history and provided a model for scientists such as ornithologist John James Audubon.
• 8. William Faulkner used this Remington typewriter in Alderman Library while he was writer in residence at the University in 1957-58.
• 7. In 1920, William Faulkner wrote Marionettes, a play in one act. Both the text and the illustrations in this manuscript are in Faulkner’s hand.
• 10. Jefferson’s personal copy of Notes on the State of Virginia, published in 1787, included a foldout map and 16 pages of original manuscript that he inserted. The pages included corrections, references, notations, insights and observations—both his own and those he received from readers.
• 9. The first minutes book of the U.Va. Board of Visitors, May 5, 1817, to July 24, 1828, carries the signatures of three U.S. presidents—James Madison, James Monroe and, of course, Thomas Jefferson. The minutes up to the meeting of April 7, 1826, are in Jefferson’s hand; the announcement of his death in July is the sole entry for the Oct. 2, 1826, meeting.