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...four Gospels has lain in the library. It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions-a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time it has ever left Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: IRISH TREASURE | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...usual, Mr. Chaliapin prepared no program in advance. Each song was announced by number from the stage, the numbers ostensibly corresponding to those in a printed wordbook previously distributed. The excellence of his renditions was in no way marred by the fact that the numbers often failed to correspond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Koussevitsky Triumphant | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

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