Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jonathan M. Denwood, 63, author of Red Ike; after long illness; in Cockermouth, England. Day-time tailor, night-time poacher, spare-time writer, in 1931 after nine years of hawking the manuscript Denwood saw his novel Red Ike chosen book-of-the-month by the English Book Society, sell 30,000 copies within two months. A London literary group invited him to dine. Wrote he: "When my novel was being kicked about from publisher to publisher, I desperately needed money for the first time in my life,-money for the skilled medical attention that would have arrested my malady...
...view at the Germanic Museum is an unusual exhibit illustrating the progress of manuscript illumination in Germany from the 8th to the 16th century. The exhibit, which will continue until March 26, is the more interesting because, due to a much straitened budget, the Museum could not afford to borrow originals, but has instead secured the most authentic reproductions available...
...particular, Dr. Kuhn pointed to one volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...
...some reason this subject of manuscript illumination is little known in America, "Dr. Kuhn continued. "Personally, I think it is the best means of expression of the German temperament which remains to us today. By studying these illuminated manuscripts it is possible to trace the history of the German people throughout the Middle Ages. During the 10th and 11th centuries no work comparable to the German can be found in either France or Italy...
Adjusting his quarter-inch spectacles and bending his good right eye toward a 29-page manuscript that had been nearly a year a-brewing, Dr. Howard Dixon Mclntyre, 41, Cincinnati neurologist, announced to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine last week his observance of an entirely new type of encephalitis (sleeping sickness) which is currently epidemic in the Middle West. The new encephalitis, he reported, refused to fit into any of the categories of the disease already known, exhibited startling phases which he advised should force medical men to intensify their research into a disease about whose cause they know nothing...