'They're the most beautiful books that were created.' So said Peter Stoicheff, professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, who wants to reassemble forty boxes of single manuscript pages. May 26, 2005: University of Saskatchewan Reassembles Medieval Manuscripts at Rare Book News and Scattered Leaves at Bookworm started me on a little journey.

The New York Public Library has online '[a]pproximately 2,340 manuscript pages, and associated illuminations' which they contributed to 'The Digital Scriptorium,' a multi-institutional image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From the June 13, 2004, Bulletin of St Francis de Sales Catholic Church, Mableton, Georgia, U.S.A.

Ole Eichorn, on his Critical Section blog, at Cremona revisited - the science of violin making points to a pdf article from Caltech on the science and technology of the art of violin making (Cremona Revisited - the Science of Violin Making).

The Stavelot Triptych is on loan from the Morgan Library and on exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art until January 8, 2006. The Morgan hopes to display the Stavelot Triptych once its renovations and expansion are complete. [ read the rest of this post ]

Marcus Scotus, at Father Marquette's Journal of Discovery in the Saint Louis Region points to The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791. [ read the rest of this post ]

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at Trinity Sunday.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons i. ii. and iii. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of Pentecost.

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Whit Sunday, The Day of Pentecost

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at Whit Sunday, The Day of Pentecost.

From The Sunday Telegraph at Everything must go in the sale of the (18th) century.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Stanislas.

Zenit, the Italian Catholic Church press agency, notes the thirtieth anniversary of the G.K. Chesterton Institute at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A, with an interview of Fr Ian Boyd, it president.

The Catholic Church Conservation blog, run by an expatriate American Briton living in Belgium, provides '[n]ews and comment on Catholic church closings throughout the world', but there's more than that, and the site is well worth visiting.

The Pitti Palace in Florence held an exhibition recently (an exhibitions archive here): Vitrum: Glass between Art and Science in the Roman World.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at Fifth Sunday After Easter.