Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, even the ignorant monks had been taught by tradition to regard this particular manuscript as the most prized possession of their library, which is a storehouse of antiquities. Tischendorf "borrowed" the book from the monks, on the plea that his health required him to work in the warmer climate of Cairo. I have seen the receipt that he gave the monastery...
Bluntly, Tischendorf stole the priceless book, and sold it to the Russian Tsar. . . . The monastery never ceased its intermittent efforts to get back the manuscript, although they were given a small sum by the Tsar, as a sort of ''hush money...
...improve the housing of the zoo's animals. Also, 900 men were requested from CWA for an indefinite number of days, to exterminate each and every Philadelphia rat. ¶ In Tennessee, CWA assigned to the State University one person and $30 to translate a German manuscript on plant diseases...
...fourth folio Shakespeares, Mary Baker Eddy's own copy of Science and Health, a Kelmscott Chaucer and a number of letters from Warren Gamaliel Harding and Thomas Jefferson. But the prize item was No. 264, an Italian leather frame holding a yellow sheet of paper, the original autograph manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner...
...Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered it to him last year...