Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest feat was the translation of an ancient Welsh manuscript of Bardic music, written approximately 1,000 years ago and the subject for 200 years of fruitless inspection. This, says Arnold Dolmetsch, reveals "a flow of melody and a poignance that proclaim a most inspired and emotional period of music." Compositions of 934 A.D., he found, were "amazingly near akin to the most modern music...
...collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...
From the point of view of the historian, certain changes in the manuscript, while they improve the continuity and the story of the Rothschild family, introduce purely fictitious events, thereby destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during...
Unfortunately vandals have at this point mutilated the manuscript, and we are left to point the moral for ourselves. With many regrets, L. Srole...
When the British Government acquired the Codex Sinaiticus, famed Fourth Century Bible manuscript, from the Soviet Government, it announced that if the public contributed half the ?100,000 ($511,250) purchase price the Government would do the rest (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Laborites in Parliament raised a mighty squawk, when they heard that the Codex had already arrived in London and the money paid over. It looked as though the Government was saddled with the expense, whether or no. But last week the Laborites were mollified when the Archbishop of Canterbury announced that the public had contributed its full...