Word: monumenta
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...Scientific and cultural groups are increasing their contacts. Scholars from three West German and two East German universities work shoulder to shoulder in East Berlin preparing the authoritative German dictionary and Monumenta Germaniae Historiae...
Elder has written scholarly works on Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, Servius, and Latin Textual criticism. An editor of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, he is also a member of Princeton's Visiting Committee on the Classics, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philological Association, and the Monumenta Germanize Historica...
Blood Bank. Last week, on Study Deck 38 of the Library of Congress, surrounded by reels of film stacked high like giant coins, William Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate material that few would ever have been able to see before, and scholars, schools and libraries can then order the documents themselves on microfilm...
Jenkins likes to think of the Monumenta as the first great "encyclopedia of the nation's sources ... a virtual blood bank of the vital life blood of research ... It is delivered," says he proudly, "for the everlasting service...