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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the third expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Wrath of the Lich King. It was officially announced at BlizzCon on August 21, 2009, although dataminers and researchers discovered details before it was announced by Blizzard. [ 2 ]
A leaf from the Tyniec Sacramentary, National Library of Poland.Written for the Brauweiler Abbey, it was a kind of sanctuary for the palatines of Lotharingia. [2]Other books used in the celebration of Mass included the Graduale (texts mainly from the Psalms, with musical notes added), the Evangeliarium or Gospel Book, and the Epistolary with texts from other parts of the New Testament, mainly ...
When manuscript production resumed in the later portion of Alfred's reign, a break with the previous Insular style of manuscript illumination occurred. The new style, although drawing some elements from Insular manuscripts, also was influenced by Carolingian , Byzantine , and Mediterranean traditions.
At 92 cm (36 in) long, 50 cm (20 in) wide and 22 cm (8.7 in) thick, it is the largest known medieval manuscript. [8] Weighing 74.8 kg (165 lb), Codex Gigas is composed of 310 leaves of vellum claimed to be made from the skins of 160 donkeys, or perhaps calfskin, covering 142.6 m 2 (1,535 sq ft) in total. [ 9 ]
An illustration of a ship from the Cædmon manuscript. The codex now referred to as the "Junius manuscript" was formerly called the "Cædmon manuscript" after an early theory that the poems it contains were the work of Cædmon; the theory is no longer considered credible, therefore the manuscript it is commonly referred to either by its Bodleian Library shelf mark "MS Junius 11", or more ...
This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the
Aldred the Scribe (also known as Aldred the Glossator) is the name by which scholars identify a tenth-century priest, otherwise known only as Aldred, who was a provost of the monastic community of St. Cuthbert at Chester-le-Street in 970. [1] He is best known for his gloss of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the late tenth century.
The manuscript contains a total of 236 leaves that are made of parchment. The contents of the manuscript appears to have undergone rebinding during the 19th century and are now covered in a dark blue Morocco leather with gilded decorations. This illuminated medieval manuscript is currently in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The ...