"Herod and the Innocents," for example, is a combination of two tellings of the Christmas story from the Fleury Playbook, a manuscript compiled during the 12th century at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Benoit-sur-Loire, in France.
Based on extensive archival research, and interdisciplinary in both subject and matter, Miscellaneous Order focuses on the myriad kinds of manuscript compiled and produced in the early modern era.
The other important document was the Fernaig manuscript, compiled between 1688 and 1693, containing about 4,200 lines of verse, mostly political and religious.
Included are works by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, as well as anonymous love songs written from a woman's point of view, and selections from the "Codex Las Huelgas," a manuscript compiled for use in a convent outside Burgos, Spain, in the 13th and 14th centuries.
But his most public art purchase was the Codex Leicester, a 72-page manuscript compiled by Leonardo da Vinci from 1506 to 1510, for which he paid $30.8 million.
A manuscript compiled from 1785 by William Fox, and in possession of the Flag Research Center, includes a full plate showing "the scoth union" flag with the addition of the cross of St. Patrick.
All authors conceived the idea for this manuscript, D.L.R. compiled the CO2 data set and G.L.F.
AE drafted the manuscript and compiled the insurance literature.
DEH drafted the manuscript and compiled the literature.
AZ reviewed the draft manuscript and compiled the final version.
