Margaret Thomas (born 1779) was a Welsh hymnwriter. She was born in 1779 in Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, Wales; her father was William Llwyd. She wrote hymns in the flyleaves (blank pages) of her Bible and other books. None of her hymns were published during her lifetime.
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The manuscript measures approximately , and consists of 88 parchment leaves in 11 quaternio gatherings. There are six flyleaves at the front, one from 1957, three from 1876 and two from the seventeenth century, of which the first has a list in the hand of Carlo di Tommaso Strozzi of the composers represented; two flyleaves at the back date from 1876 and 1957. The binding in half leather is from 1957, over older thick wooden boards. The first folio has the arms of the de' Medici family in red, gold, blue and green; the arms are in the "augmented" form granted by Louis XI in 1465, with the arms of France in the upper central ball.
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It is written in Latin and is composed of 309 high- quality vellum leaves with flyleaves of paper.Backhouse (2000), 8 Most of the pages are decorated in red paint with details in gold, silver and blind.Brown (2006), 88–9 The illustrations are stamped and tooled into the paper. The manuscript has eight cords which attach the pages together securely.
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The act is protected between two flyleaves made with acid-free materials in the vault of the General Archive of the Nation under climate monitoring. Experts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico are working on a system of preservation and exhibition of historical documents in order to permanently exhibit the act in the near future.
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Folio 24 verso, zoomorphic initial The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary (Evangelistarium) and the Epistles. The manuscript has lacuna at the beginning (three leaves). These three leaves were supplemented by a later hand on paper (probably in the 15th century). They are unfoliated modern paper flyleaves, numbered as I-III leaves.
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These are thought to be at least afterthoughts, added to what were intended as blank flyleaves, as found in a number of other manuscripts.Dodwell, 357 Throughout the text very many initials are decorated, with over 500 "major" initials fully painted with gold highlights, mostly at the first letter of each of the three text versions of each psalm.Gibson, 25 The prefatory miniature cycle is divided stylistically.
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The Breton Gospels Book contains St. Jerome's letter to Pope Damasus, The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew, and the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It also includes prefatory material and canon tables, an index for a medieval manuscript. It consists of 102 folios, plus two unfoliated paper flyleaves. The book's dimensions are 310 by 210 mm, or about 12.2 by 8.3 inches.
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The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 176 parchment leaves (size ), and two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end. The text is written in two columns per page, 27-29 lines per page. The manuscript has ornamented headpieces, the large initial letters in red, the small initials in red. The manuscript contains Prolegomena, lists of the (tables of contents) before each Gospel.
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The manuscript was written by Georgios Baiophoros, a scribe, in 1407. It was bound later with Uncial 0121a; the first folio from 0121a was folded in half and used as flyleaves at the front and end of minuscule 385. The manuscript was examined by Griesbach (Acts 1-8, 1 Peter, 1 John 5, Romans, 1 Cor, 2 Cor 3, Ephesians, Rev) and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
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Detail of a miniature of hedgehogs rolling on grapes, sticking them to their spines to carry back to their young; folio 45r. The Rochester Bestiary is a parchment manuscript dating from c. 1230-1240.Clark 2006, p. 73 Its principle contents are a bestiary, but it also contains a short lapidary (a treatise on stones) in French prose and, as the flyleaves, two leaves of a 14th-century service book.
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The precise origin of Mod A is controversial, with Pavia/Milan, Pisa and Bologna all being proposed.Stoessel Firm evidence of ownership of the book by the Biblioteca Estense only occurs in the early nineteenth century, although a 1495 catalogue of the Este family library in Ferrara might refer to it.Pirrotta It was rediscovered by the philologist Antonio Cappelli in 1868.Cappelli Excluding flyleaves and modern additions, Mod A comprises 51 parchment folios divided into five gatherings.
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It consists of 190 numbered folios made of parchment. Front and rear, three parchment flyleaves. The volume is illustrated with 1.520 miniatures and is dedicated to the New Testament, containing texts from the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of Paul, James, Peter and John, the Epistola catholica judae and the Apocalypse of St. John, up to chapter XIX:15-16. ;Volume 4 (Morgan M240) Size: 375 x 265 mm, writing space: ca.
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Many have handwritten annotations, personal additions and marginal notes but some new owners also commissioned new craftsmen to include more illustrations or texts. Sir Thomas Lewkenor of Trotton hired an illustrator to add details to what is now known as the Lewkenor Hours. Flyleaves of some surviving books include notes of household accounting or records of births and deaths, in the manner of later family bibles. Some owners had also collected autographs of notable visitors to their house.
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There are two parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the volume, with an additional paper flyleaf at the back. The first volume opens with a full page illumination showing the Pantocrator, God the Son, as the Creator of the universe. The rest of the work contains the texts and miniatures as described in the section ‘Iconography’. The first volume contains 1.529 miniatures with text excerpts from the books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Regum i.
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The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 268 parchment leaves (size ), with only one lacuna (Hebrews 12:17-13:25). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. The vellum is fine and white.F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XLVI The leaves 225-226 were supplied by a later hand on paper (flyleaves).
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On May 30, 1879, two tornadoes destroyed most of the town, leaving 19 dead and many more injured. These tornadoes were extensively studied by the pioneer American meteorologist John Park Finley, and author L. Frank Baum may have named the main character of his Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale after one of the victims. The flyleaves of Sandlin's book contain Finley's drawings of the tornadoes' paths. Frank Baum also had a niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy.
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The first official returns did not appear until 1843 and listed only acreages and production figures by counties. However, a list of vines planted in the colony by 1832 appears in manuscript notes on the flyleaves of a copy of James Busby's 1830 publication, "A Manual of plain directions for planting and cultivating vineyards and for making wine in NSW". At this stage there were 10 settlers on the Hunter River growing vines. These included George Wyndham at Dalwood who had 2 acres.
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De Labarde, 1911-1927. Volume 5, pp.49-56. ;Volume 2 Size: 422 x 305 mm, writing space: ca. 300 x 215 mm. This volume contains 224 numbered parchment folios and six parchment flyleaves, three in the front and three at the back. The 1.792 miniatures illustrate excerpts from: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. ;Volume 3 Size: 430 x 305 mm, writing space: ca. 293 x 207 mm.
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The manuscript is written in two columns on leaves of parchment measuring . It has 115 folios and flyleaves from other manuscripts, sewn together and held between boards; the manuscript scholar Daniel Huws considers the sewing and boards to be original, noting that "it is one of the few medieval Welsh manuscripts to retain a medieval, probably original, binding structure". Calf was used to recover the boards at some point in the 19th century. The spine bears a 19th-century addition, the Latin words ("13th-century Welsh Law Manuscript").
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The manuscript consists of a small oblong quarto measuring some 15 by 19 centimetres. It is in excellent condition and retains its original binding formed from several sheets of rough paper folded, pasted and stitched to a strip of vellum to form the spine. The manuscript contains 32 leaves bearing two pairs of hand-ruled six-line staves on which are twelve short pieces written in a neat hand. On the first of the two front flyleaves is the inscription: Clement Matchett 1613, with a table of contents on the verso.
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Ashbee notes that the coat-of-arms could not have been that of Edward VI, although it suggests one from Gloucester, as well as ownership subsequent to that of Merro. Although Monson suggested the dates of 1615-1630, Fallows felt the earliest part of the span is the more correct. Based on his study of the paste-down flyleaves, he felt that the collection was bound no later than 1620 in Oxford. Ashbee suggests dates of 1615-1625 and agrees that the earliest dates are more likely. The physical layout of music resembles that manuscripts Christ Church MSS 984-8 (The Dow Partbooks) and British Museum Add. 22597.
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The manuscript (excluding paper flyleaves) has 746 folios (so 1,492 pages), which include a quire of six illuminated pages added at the end; the page dimensions are 16 x 12 cm. The manuscript includes "eighty-four different groups of texts, including hundreds of poems". The Biblical and liturgical texts include the Pentateuch, the Haftarot prophetical readings, Tiqqun soferim, Five Scrolls, and the full annual cycle of the liturgy, as well as the Haggadah (Passover ritual) and the earliest complete Hebrew text of the Book of Tobit, which is not included in the Tanakh or canon of the Hebrew Bible.Tahan, 121; BM Other texts include the Pirkei Avot, prayers, gematria, legal texts and calendars.
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Jones's written comments have been preserved and are pasted on new flyleaves at the beginning of the volume.) Jones believed the manuscript was copied by or for William Hayes (1706–1777), which would mean the work dates from the mid-18th century. (Jones's binding is no longer extant; the current binding was created by the Library.) While acknowledging that Hayes might have owned the manuscript, Musicologist Peter Holman strongly cast doubt on the 18th century dating based on three reasons. First, Holman described the very orderly progression of works by key as being typical of the Restoration period; such organization had ceased by 1700. Secondly, characteristics of the handwriting in its notation of music and in particular key signatures and time signatures is typical of the 17th century.
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Swastikas on the wedding dress as symbols of luck, British colony, 1910 The Anglo-Indian author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was strongly influenced by Indian culture, used a swastika as his personal emblem on the covers and flyleaves of many editions of his books, along with the elephant, signifying his affinity with India. With the rise of Nazism, Kipling ceased to use the swastika. One of his Just So Stories, "The Crab That Played with the Sea", included an elaborate full-page illustration by Kipling including a stone bearing what was called "a magic mark" (a swastika); some later editions of the stories blotted out the mark on the stone, but left the caption unaltered, leaving readers puzzled. Logo from a 1911 edition of Rudyard Kipling. During the First World War, the swastika was used as the emblem of the British National War Savings Committee.. British national savings stamp, 1916 The swastika was also used as a symbol by the Boy Scouts in Britain, and worldwide.
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The scheme, as refined by Fordyce, consisted in salaried governesses, each accompanied by an assistant or ayah, making regular visits to higher- caste Hindu households to provide elementary education for the ladies there, the costs of such visits being met from a monthly subscription paid by the head of the house. The governesses were to be accommodated free in an institution devoted to the cause: in the first instance they would be drawn from Fordyce’s orphanage and from orphans trained there to become teachers – to which end he established a Normal School department within the Institution.Calcutta Review, No. L, Vol. XXV (1855), p. 88, and Miscellaneous Notices xxx-xxxiv. He embarked on a programme of consultation, persuasion and negotiation with influential Hindu (notably the Tagore) families “to overcome their scruples, learn their objections, and gain their support”.Rev. E. Storrow, Our Indian Sisters (The Religious Tract Society, 1899), pp. 209-215. He produced a series of pamphlets (“Flyleaves for Indian Homes”) containing “short, strong and striking appeals to husbands and fathers”, which circulated widely in India.Mary Weitbrecht, The Women of India and Christian Work in the Zenana (James Nisbet & Co., 1875), p. 71.
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