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Ebbo Gospels. The Ebbo Gospels (Épernay, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 1) is an early Carolingian illuminated Gospel book known for its illustrations that appear agitated. The book was produced in the ninth century at the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Pierre d’Hautvillers, by Ebbo, the archbishop of Reims. [1]
Purple parchment or purple vellum refers to parchment dyed purple; codex purpureus refers to manuscripts written entirely or mostly on such parchment. The lettering may be in gold or silver. Later [when?] the practice was revived for some especially grand illuminated manuscripts produced for the emperors in Carolingian art and Ottonian art, in ...
With a budget of $7 million, "Scream" by Michael Jackson (left) and Janet Jackson (right) is the most expensive music video of all time—both nominally and adjusted for inflation. This article lists the most expensive music videos ever made, with costs of $500,000 or more, from those whose budgets have been disclosed.
The player is taught by a pickup artist how to pick up women by going through multiple choice questions accompanied by video clips. The game came under fire by a number of video game critics; one described it as the "world's sleaziest game", [31] and another criticized the game for "normalizing rape culture " [32] Prior to its release, the game ...
Rather than a traditional awards-show saunter down the aisle, Prince was led to the stage in bulldozer fashion by one of those same bodyguards — the 6’8” Chick Huntsberry, who also appears ...
The Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus (" Purple Codex of Saint Petersburg "), designated by N or 022 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε19 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek New Testament codex containing the four Gospels written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing ...
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57. If you own a copy of this famous Mark Twain book with a ...
Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...