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Opus Pistorum, (from the Latin, Work of the Miller), written as pornography-for-hire in 1941 (see Anaïs Nin), was retitled in its second edition Under the Roofs of Paris, published by the Estate of Henry Miller. New York: Grove Press, 1983. ISBN 0-8021-3183-2
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism.
The collegium was a prominent burial association that received Senate approval during the consulship of Marcus Antonius Hiberus and Publius Mummius Sisenna. [8] The legal articles of incorporation of the collegium have been preserved on a two column marble monument discovered in 1816 (CIL 14.2112). [9]
OPUS is an open-source software package under the GNU General Public License used for creating Open Access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It provides tools for creating collections of digital resources, as well as for their storage and dissemination.
The Rosy Crucifixion, a trilogy consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928.
The Opus Imperfectum is useful in dating the Revelation of the Magi, a Syrian Christian apocryphon of uncertain date. The Revelation only survives as a section in the 8th-century Zuqnin Chronicle , but the Opus Imperfectum describes and summarizes an unknown book of Seth (the third son of Adam and Eve) that seems to match the Revelation of the ...
Opus maius, 1750 edition First page of a 1750 edition of Opus majus. The Opus Majus (Latin for "Greater Work") is the most important work of Roger Bacon. It was written in Medieval Latin, at the request of Pope Clement IV, to explain the work that Bacon had undertaken. The 878-page treatise ranges over all aspects of natural science, from ...
The Opus Maximum was a set of philosophical manuscripts dictated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his friend and colleague, Dr Joseph Henry Green, between 1819 and 1823. It was not published in Coleridge's lifetime, finally emerging in the 2002 version edited by Thomas McFarland with the assistance of Nicholas Halmi.