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Several antiquity authorities of Fogg Museum and the Department of Semitic Languages will be working for the next few months on the unrolling and translation of a leather parchment scroll brought to Cambridge this week by Archbishop Athanaseus Y. Samuel, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Transjordan...
According to Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, the scroll is believed to be the prophetic Book of Lameck, a primitive patriarch, mentioned in the fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis. The prophet's inscription was identified in the first few lines of the parchment by William F. Albright, professor of Semantics at Johns Hopkins University...
Pope Pius XII's step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...
Abstractions In Canterbury. The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture. Done mostly on calfskin parchment and laced with burnished gold and rainbow colors, they had kept fresh and shining through the centuries. One of them, an 8th Century psalter believed to have been made by the monks of Canterbury, was decorated with twining capital letters as abstract and whimsically complicated as any paintings produced today. Another, dating from the early 9th Century in France, was a book of the four Gospels written entirely in gold on pages dyed purple...
...well?" complained a visitor from the West Indies. "After all, you can't change that day. It's the Queen's day." But four days later, after a strenuous round of parades, reviews and parties, the Queen whose birthday it celebrated put her name on a parchment and-after 50 years of rule-was queen no more...