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...title page of each manuscript must be signed with a motto or an assumed name, the same to be written on the envelope of a sealed letter in which is enclosed the name and address of the competitor. The prize composition will be performed in the College Chapel, with chorus and organ. The compositions must be presented to the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Arthur Foote, 81 Green street, Brookline, on or before March...
...public wants, and that is why so many are written and produced. Even Shakespeare, says the modern concocter of the tired business man's farcical cocktails, wrote to please the public taste of his time. If Shakespeare were living and were to come to Mr. Woods with the manuscript of "Macbeth", the latter states that he would say, "Bill, they don't want that kind of stuff. Take out the idea and sell what's left to the movies. They'll dress Lady Macbeth up in $100,000 worth of gowns and advertising will put the thing over...
Another interesting French manuscript is a fragment of a Bible Moralisee, probable executed in Parts for St. Louis, King of France, about 1240. The main decoration consists of "eight large roundel linked together in two columns in diapered backgrounds, containing illustrations of the Apocalypse alternating with mystical interpretations. The Latin text and Commentaries are placed in narrow strips on the left of each column of illustrations and both text and illustrations are enclosed in a border of gold and colors...
Among the works of the English school are a Book of Gospels dating from about 700, written in good on vellum dyed purple; a thirteenth century Life of Christ; and twelfth century Bestiary. The so-called Bestiaries, or Handbooks of Natural History, formed a large and interesting class of manuscripts, "often illustrated profusely, especially during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with colored drawings of beasts, birds and fishes, actual or fabulous; more rarely with fully illuminated miniatures in gold and colors". In Mr. Morgan's manuscript the animals are colored blue, brown or red, shading into white. The miniatures...
...prize will be awarded only in case a composition is submitted which, in the opinion of the judges, is worthy of it. The title page of each manuscript must be signed with a motto or an assumed name, the same also to be written on the envelope of a sealed letter in which is enclosed the real name of the competitor...