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• More Coptic Manuscripts at Gallica

  
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  At Gallica you can find now more digitized Coptic manuscripts from the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. All of them are Sahidic fragments from the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (i.e. White Monastery): BnF Copte 102 Miscellanea BnF Copte 129(11) New Testament. … Continue reading →
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• What can a Beta Reading service offer you?

  
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  I first met my wonderful Beta Reader, Marion, when His Brand Of Beautiful, published by Escape Publishing, was released in March 2013. At the time, I approached Marion (who reviews for the US website, Ravishing Romances , as Musing Maddie) to review His Brand Of Beautiful for me. That review sparked one of those ...
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• An antiphon for Eastertide: Surrexit Dominus Vere

  
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  Weve been singing this lovely fraction anthem at the Eucharist during Eastertide; its S167 in the 1982 Hymnal.  The setting cited there is "Mode 6 melody, adapt. Mason Martens (b. 1933)."   The parts in italics below are congregational; the other lines are sung by a soloist in the choir. The disciples knew the ...
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• Meditations on a Medieval Labyrinth

  
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  Last Saturday, May 4th, marked the 5th annual World Labyrinth Day. People from all over the world walked labyrinths together in celebration of this cultural construction, “Walk[ing] as One at 1″.1  Labyrinths have existed for over 4000 years across multiple cultures and settings, including classical, Roman, ...
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• Ryrie Library Opens at Dallass Museum of Biblical Art

  
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  The Library is displaying one of the rarest Bible collections in the world in the exhibit, “The Story of the Bible.” Yesterday the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas dedicated the Charles C. Ryrie Library, named after biblical scholar whose name it bears. Dr. Ryrie, retired professor and chairman of the ...
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• New Publication: Dating Early Tibetan Manuscripts

  
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  It’s very hard to fix a date on most early Tibetan sources. Few of the manuscripts contain an explicit date, and there are often no clues implicit in the text either. Thus we end up placing these manuscripts in time spans that may be much wider than we would like. In the case of the Tibetan manuscripts from the ...
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• Day One: Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century

  
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  In which I continue to rehash the events of Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century symposium hosted by the Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Major topics tackled on day one included the challenges and opportunities associated with archiving e-literature, email (born digital), phonotexts ...
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• Guest Post: Anthony Alcock – The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet (Part 3)

  
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  Part 3 of Anthony Alcock’s translation of the Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet. Part 1, Part 2. Filed under: Guest Post Tagged: Anthony Alcock, Bodleian Library, Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet, Oxford, paper manuscripts
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• Alfred and Isabel Reed Medieval Manuscripts Online

  
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  Leaf from a French Book of Hours, fifteenth century (RMMF19) It gives me great pleasure to announce that images and descriptions of the Dunedin City Librarys holdings of medieval manuscripts from the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection are now available on Flickr: Profile ...
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• A Rogation Days processional hymn: Ardua spes mundi (Ratpert († c.890))

  
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  Described at the YouTube page as a versus ad processionem in diebus dominicis ("hymn for Sunday processions"), Ardua spes mundi was apparently sung at Rogation Day processions, according to David Hileys Western Plainchant . ( The Rogation Days are the three weekdays prior to Ascension Day; were in the middle of ...
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• Drawing (and Writing, Illuminating, Musing) Upon Infinity

  
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  [Image: the first page -- the first letter, a capital L -- of the so-called Wenceslas Bible. Its not the Bible referenced in Jennifer OGradys poem, below (for one thing, the text is in German, not Latin). But I have a feeling its in the same general neck of the illuminated-manuscript woods. Its worth viewing ...
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• The Return of the Miami University Press Novella Contest!

  
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  After a brief hiatus, Miami University Press invites submissions to the 2014 Novella Contest. This award has been given annually since 2005 to a novella length manuscript of original fiction. The winning manuscript will receive $750 and publication. Submissions are currently open. All entries will be reviewed blindly. ...
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• Protected: Lambeth Palace retrieves stolen collection of extraordinary rare books | Books | The Guardian

  
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• Tips for Formatting Your Manuscript

  
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  When I was in graduate school, I fell in love with designing the written word. I took a class on document design and created a compilation of my writing to print and send out to agents and publishers. (Whether or not I thought I would be discovered with that compilation is for another post.) Electronic books were on ...
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• Keynote by David Sutton: Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century

  
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  This weekend I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century symposium hosted by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale. It was a tremendous opportunity to be with such an eminent group of academics, archivists and curators, all gathered together to ...
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• Strange Chemistry Will Open for Unagented Submissions

  
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  Strange Chemistry is doing it again... Strange Chemistry Unagented Submissions 2013 Okay, I know that some of you have been waiting for a long while for this announcement! Strange Chemistry is once again opening to unagented YA submissions. We opened to unagented submissions last year and, although a number of ...
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• Me and you and a boy? girl? dog? named Snafu

  
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  Sorry about my recent slow rate of posting, campers; as the sharper-eyed among you may have noticed, we here at Author! Author! have been experiencing what the old television shows used to call euphemistically technical difficulties . Quite a bit of progress can be seen behind the scenes, I assure you, but it will ...
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• Me and you and a boy? girl? dog? named Snafu

  
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  Sorry about my recent slow rate of posting, campers; as the sharper-eyed among you may have noticed, we here at Author! Author! have been experiencing what the old television shows used to call euphemistically technical difficulties . Quite a bit of progress can be seen behind the scenes, I assure you, but it will ...
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• Photographs of White Monastery Fragments on Gallica Website

  
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  It was a nice surprise to discover a few days ago that the National Library in Paris put up on the Gallica website photographs of some of the Sahidic parchment fragments in their possession. More precisely, they have uploaded until … Continue reading →
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• Butterfly sightings in the ARTstor Digital Library

  
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  Papilionidae; swallowtail butterfly | Collected: 8/1975, Madagascar, Africa | Yale University: Peabody Museum of Natural History; peabody.yale.edu Spring time is here and butterflies are already making their annual appearance, according to butterfliesandmoths.org . To celebrate, we’ve compiled a slide show of ...
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