Speculum, Volume 2Edward Kennard Rand Mediaeval Academy of America., 1927 Articles and book reviews on any and all aspects of the Middle Ages, including art, history, literature, philosophy and theology, music, science, law and economics. |
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Page 9 - cantando gridò tre volte, e tutti li altri appresso. Quali i beati al novissimo bando surgeran presti ognun di sua caverna, la revestita carne alleluiando; cotali in su la divina basterna si levar cento, ad vocem tanti senis, ministri e messaggier di vita eterna. Tutti dicean:
Page 61 - High German' alone, that is, the dialects of south and central Germany, and the principal specimens of the oldest High German literature date only from the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century.
Page 118 - R. Proctor, An index to the early printed books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD, with notes of those in the Bodleian Library.
Page 69 - Scots willingly received them all, and took care to supply them with food, as also to furnish them with books to read, and their teaching, gratis.
Page 67 - Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum ; We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Page 67 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 67 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 5 - Allor surse alla vista scoperchiata Un' ombra lungo questa infino al mento : Credo che s
Page 475 - Per funem lapsa occultata agmina Invadunt urbem et incendunt Pergama. Vigili voce avis anser Candida Fugavit Gallos ex arce Romulea, Pro qua virtute facta est argentea Et a Romanis adorata ut dea. Nos adoremus celsa Christi numina: Illi canora demus nostra jubila.
Page 452 - Dex la grasce l'an done: d'Erec, le fil Lac, est li contes, que devant rois et devant contes depecier et corronpre suelent cil qui de conter vivre vuelent.
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| Title | Speculum, Volume 2 Speculum, Mediaeval Academy of America Speculum, Mediaeval Academy of America |
| Editor | Edward Kennard Rand |
| Contributors | Mediaeval Academy of America, Medieval Academy of America |
| Publisher | Mediaeval Academy of America., 1927 |
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