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...small truck, and Piazza set about locking up the tavern. When he got to Juliet's room, a cold chill gripped his heart. Gone were the bedstead, the wardrobe and the other Capulet relics. In their place, stuck firmly to the wall, was a note written on parchment in purest 13th century Italian. "I prefer beloved Verona to this creepy castle," it read. And it was signed Giulietta...
Director John P. Coolidge '35 announced last night that the task of opening the scroll will be under the direction of Rutherford J. Gettens '29, director of technical research. Gettens conducted preliminary tests on the brittle parchment last week and decided it could be opened without being destroyed...
Fogg Museum has agreed to examine a 2,000-year-old partly disintegrated parchment scroll to determine whether it can be safely opened, Director John P. Coolidge '35 announced last night...
...most thoughtful present I ever got" said one Harvard grad "was some sonnets a Wellesley girl wrote me and illuminated on parchment." This statement is another version of the old line that the thought behind the gift is most important; that this form of reasoning still prevails is evidenced by local sales of soup tourines, rare prints, and several copies of the US camera annual...
Nomad tribes found the parchment in a cache of scrolls on the shores of the Dead Sea two years ago. Since that time, little has been done with the parchment because of its condition. It is, according to Pfeiffer a roll of sheepskin which has deteriorated greatly over the centuries until its is now a broken and hardened mass...