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...Bible is one of the ten copies known to be in this country. It was printed in Mainz, Germany, and has passed through the hands of the Earl of Ashburnham, Robert Hoe, and Peter A. B. Widener...
...Earl of Ashburnham came into possession of the Bible in 1814. It was later sold to Robert Hoe of New York and Peter A. B. Widener, Sr., of Philadelphia bought...
...year after she was graduated from Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., Bette, then 19, went to Manhattan, had her discomfiting brush with Le Gallienne, later enrolled in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school. When a chance came to play in George Cukor's stock production of Broadway in Rochester, Ruthie sent her off with a blessing and the admonition to learn both her own part and that of the leading lady, because "the lead is going to break...
Robert H. McAleer '36, of Brookline; Leo J. McNulty '36, of Roslindale; David H. Pabst '36, of Oconomowoe, Wisconsin; Lawrason Riggs, III '36, of New York City; David W. Schoonmaker '36, of Ashburnham; Alfred R. Shrigley, Jr. '36, of Hingham; George T. Skinner '36, of North Wales, Pennsylvania; Francis X. Sommer, Jr. '36, of Washington; Charles F. Tillinghast, Jr. ocC., of Providence, Rhode Island; Robert H. Waldinger '36, of Newton Center; Sidney S. Williston '37, of Northampton; and Dana C. Wrightington '36, of Lexington...
What the nuns and the gapers liked best was Morgan Manuscript No. 1, the great Ashburnham Gospels (probably executed between 825-850), lettered in pure gold on purple vellum leaves, bound in golden plates set with ancient rubies and emeralds. Even more valuable for theological students was a case of 9th & 10th Century Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century...