Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "A Fifteenth Century Manuscript, and the Contents of its Covers." Professor Rand. Assembly Room, Conant Hall...
Each memoir must be accompanied by a sealed envelop enclosing the author's name and superscribed with a motto corresponding to one on the manuscript, and must be in the hands of the Secretary on or before April 1 of the year for which the prize is offered...
...Lulli. This music has not been heard since the ballet was danced before Louis XIV at the first presentation in 1665; and it is only through the kindness of M. Julien Tiersot, the librarian of the Conservatoire de Musique at Paris, who has furnished a copy of the original manuscript, now in the Paris archives, that is possible to reproduce the exact musical environment of this play. The orchestra will include an historic harpsichord, lent for the occasion from the Chickering collection. In vivid contrast to this classic comedy will be the extremely lively and amusing farce, "L'Anglais...
...Grimani Breviary which is the most precious illuminated manuscript in existence, was finished in 1480 by Hans Memling and other Flemish artists, and consists of 1580 illuminated pages, of which 110 are full page illuminations. All the illustrations are now being reproduced and three volumes of plates have already been received by the University Library...
Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the fact that there is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum the so-called Fairfax Murray (or Seddon) portrait of Chaucer, which, next to the illumination by this disciple Occleve in a manuscript of the early fifteenth century, is probably the best likeness of the poet in existence. Alongside it in the Museum has been placed a book describing all extant portraits of Chaucer, with a photographic reproduction of each...