"Archivist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... circumstances made the stream of knowledge broader, if shallower. The next abbot also added some books. Geoffrey, the sixteenth abbot, was the author of a miracle play, an industrious scribe, and the donor of some books finely illuminated and bound. His successor, at one time the conventual archivist, loved books equally well, and got together a fair collection. Great Abbot Robert had many books written—"too many to be mentioned."[3] Simon, the next abbot (1167), a learned and good-living man who encouraged others to learn, was especially ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage
... anyone, tried not to lose his ideas and the study of their transformation is extremely interesting. One day Nuitter, the archivist at the Opera, learned of an important sale of manuscripts in Berlin. He attended the sale and brought back a lot of Meyerbeer's rough drafts which included studies for a Faust that the author never finished. These fragments give no idea what the piece would have ...
— Musical Memories • Camille Saint-Saens
... published by Retana in his Archivo bibliofilo filipino, t. iv, no. 1; our translation is made therefrom. The original MS. of Diego de Artieda's relation (1573) is conserved in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar at Madrid; its pressmark is "711, 20-3a, caja no 22." The MS. ascribed by some former archivist to Juan de la Isla, but apparently almost identical with Artieda's (see notes thereon in the text), is in the Archivo de Indias at Sevilla; its pressmark is: "Simancas—Filipinas; Descubrimientos, descripciones y poblaciones ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair |
