Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this series, Professor Wolfson traces the growth and interrelationship of Greek, Hebrew, Moslem and Christian pholosophies. All 12 volumes have been written, five have already been published and two more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts...
FROM the days of medieval illuminators, a reverence for word and picture has gone hand in hand. The modern counterpart to the illuminated manuscript is the limited edition. Where the average gallerygoer is happy with fine reproductions on coated stock, the limited-edition bibliophile demands a creation as much portfolio as book, with each copy numbered, signed and printed on finest handmade paper...
...acquisition that did much to justify Randall's enthusiasm: the extensive book and manuscript collection of Chicago Printer George Poole. Prize of the Poole library is a Gutenberg Bible that, at the time of the sale, was one of three still in private hands. Randall knew the book well; he was the dealer who sold it to Bibliophile Poole six years ago. When he heard that the collection was to be sold, Randall hurriedly took an option, needed only 15 minutes to persuade President Wells to put up the money (the university will not say how much...
...sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures as the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address and a lock of George Washington's hair...
...composition, an oil on a copper surface, pictures a philosopher copying a manuscript illuminated by an unusual lighting effect from a candle...