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...brief, the dating rests on two major pieces of physical evidence. First, the scribe who drew the map and copied the text used a writing style known as Oberrheinische Bastarda, or Upper Rhineland bastard (or cursive) book hand, which is confined to the period 1415-1460. Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows...
...mating game with a passion. When he first saw the broken bust in 1951, it left an indelible impression. "It was as if he were alive," recalls Bothmer. "He is tense and poised. I knew that the bottom part would be cross-legged in the stylized posture of a scribe." Then, while combing through the archives at Paris' College de France, Bothmer came upon a yellowed 1934 photograph of a seated figure, missing from the waist up. He began a 13-year hunt to find the bottom part in order to put this Egyptian Humpty Dumpty back together again...
Well blow me over and cover me with Ibis drippings. September's Lampoon is funny. In fact, in the tradition of one venerated Crimson ex-scribe, I might as well fess right up at the start. I laughed my fool head...
...quasi-colonialist old-style tourists, or the traveling beatniks, who bum their way from city to city, sing folk songs and pass the hat in real and phony artists' dives, and accept any job that will subsidize their tours?" Any Parisian who caught the act along the Rue Scribe this summer would be hard put to make the choice. Daily, the area around American Express headquarters swarmed with disheveled U.S. youths who were so desperate for a hitchhike that they stuck up placards along the walls, and were so broke that they monopolized the sidewalks, hawking everything from motor...
...therefore let us punish Asa the Scribe, & make him confess before all Harvard...