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Fred Towlsey Murphy, a former member of the Yale Corporation, donated the 47-page manuscript to Yale in 1948. Officials said they do not know how Murphy obtained the manuscript, for he was not a collector of Hebraica and no member of his immediate family was in Europe during...
...manuscript probably was made in the workshop of Jothel Ben Simeon, a prolific scribe of the late 1400s working in Northern Italy, Walter Cahn, chairman of the Yale history of art department, and his wife, Annabelle, wrote in an article for the Yale Library Gazzette...
There are, of course, various types of editors in the game. At one extreme are the acquisition editors-"belly editors," in trade jargon-who do their most important work at lunch. There the menu and the contract may get a more careful reading than the manuscript. Then there are the creative editors, who see their task as the finding and overall shaping of a manuscript. Finally, there are the pencil editors, who work line by line on messy or complex manuscripts (although that chore is often left to copyreaders...
...every week. Chapters and suggestions circulated through the mails, and an entire draft was completed just after Labor Day, 1979. Coleman read it and a few weeks later checked into Washington's Jefferson Hotel, where for a week of 18-hour days he and Broder went over the manuscript line by line. "His fingerprints are on every damn sentence," says the columnist with appreciation. "This book is as much Jonathan Coleman's as it is mine...
...less visible prints on the 884-page manuscript belong to Lynn Chalmers, one of twelve staff copy editors at Simon & Schuster. It normally takes about a month to copyread a book, but Chalmers completed the job in two weeks. She corrected punctuation, broke long segments into paragraphs, and checked facts. Inconsistencies were flagged on strips of pink paper and attached to the offending pages...