From Ptolemy's "Geographia"Phillips Exeter is fortunate to have received a number of rare books and manuscripts from donors to the Special Collections. Among the most notable of these is an early edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (1545) containing 54 double maps. Another significant item is a 15th-century French illuminated manuscript in cursive Gothic script on vellum, De Vitiis et Virtutibus by Guillaume d'Auvergne, the Bishop of Paris. This volume was the gift of Imre de Vegh, father of Pierre Jay de Vegh '54.

Image from "Der Buchholzschnitt in 16. jahrhundert...", also known as the "Geisberg Folio" The Codex Manesse is one of 319 facsimile copies of an illustrated book of folk poetry dating from the 12th, 13th and early 14th centuries. Published in Germany, the facsimile preserves every detail of the original. The Codex was given by George M. Schurman and is unusual for its time as a secular work.

From from D'Auvergne's
"De Vitiis et Virtutibus"
The Geisberg Folio, donated by John A. Hardy '46 and one of only 50 copies published, is a collection of original woodcut illustrations from Dutch, French, German, Italian and Swiss books of the 16th century.