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...fled for safety to Foligno, then to Cortona. But from this nine-year period of exile, no record of Fra Angelico's activities has survived. One theory is that, on the Dominicans' return to Fiesole, Fra Angelico worked under Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese monk famed for his manuscript illuminations. Supporting this theory is the fact that one of Fra Angelico's earliest surviving paintings, a Virgin and Child (see cover), is based on an earlier Monaco work...
PASTOR TO THE HOLY LAND IN '56." But perhaps the most understanding present of all is offered by Pageant Press, Inc.: "YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED . . . Send manuscript for free report...
...Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after that to the abbey library at Admont, Austria, where it had come to rest as part of the bookbinding of a 12th century manuscript. There it remained until 1937, when it was sold to Goldschmidt...
...ensuing plunder, the monastery's library was scattered - including a Bible scriven some 30 years before, near the end of the Merovingian dynasty. A fragment of that Bible has now turned up at Yale University. Most exciting fact about the find : it is probably the oldest manuscript of Christian music in existence...
People sometimes wonder why a publisher would want to be located in a city like Boston, notorious for its well-publicized censorship and stuffy morality. One editor summed up his answer by saying that in Boston he can take a long and objective view of the manuscript before him. "Away from the insularity of New York," he said, "the proximity to Madison Avenue's advertising agencies, and the 'faddishness' of the Big City, I can examine more carefully the ideas of an author. I can shut out the irrelavant and concentrate on what I am reading."Typical of an editor...