Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initiative of Mr. Luigl Carnovale of Chicago, the Italians of the United States have presented to the Widener Library at Harvard a facsimile in color of the "Codex Trivulzianus", the oldest dated Tuscan manuscript of Dante's "Divine Comedy". This manuscript was executed in 1337 and is supposed by many to be one of the famous group of Florentine manuscripts known as the "Dantes of the Hundred...
...addition are shown two works published by Dr. Ratti at the same time. The first is one of four volumes of the Acts of the Church of Milan, edited by the present Pope, the other is his Notes on an early manuscript of the Satires of Juwenal...
Regulations have been announced as follows: "The title page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name, with a statement of the writer's academic standing, and must be accompanied by a sealed letter, containing his true name and superscribed with his assumed name. Every essay must be neatly and legibly written or typewritten. Essayists are at liberty to write on any one of the subjects which have been proposed in the years during which this prize has been offered, or to propose new subjects for the approval of the Council of the Dante Society...
...Widener Library has on exhibition in the Treasure Room some contemporary souvenirs of Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824, including Everett's oration and Ware's poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in that year, with manuscript notes of the toasts given at the dinner at which Lafayette was a guest, a play--bill of the theatrical performance in his honor in New York, various biographies called forth by his presence here, a collection of poems in his honor, and a scrap--book of newspaper clippings tracing his progress from town to town...
...case is devoted to the volumes of manuscript copies of his correspondence and papers which Lafayette himself sent to Jared Sparks, afterward President of the University, and to Sparks" notes taken down at Lagrange from Lafayette's dictation...