There's a great scene in the film Amadeus where Mozart's nemesis, the court composer Salieri, holds a sheaf of Mozart's manuscripts.
The dramatic lighting, towering piles of books and Mephistophelian vibe of the poster for the forthcoming Nick Cave doc recalls popular 17th-century paintings of alchemists at work, surrounded by sheaves of magical manuscripts and pseudo-scientific instruments.
A random page of manuscript.
Some time before, a friend had given him a sheaf of Brodsky's poems, but the type was faint (samizdat manuscripts were often typed three or four sheets at a time), and Loseff didn't like the look of the lines, which, especially in Brodsky's early poetry, stretched on and on.
The breadth and importance of this collection became especially apparent, Ms. Guthrie said, when she came across the original manuscript of "This Land Is Your Land" in a sheaf of papers and was scolded by Mr. Arevalo, now the chief curator of the Guthrie archives, for having a document "up there with the Constitution" unprotected from the wear of time.
Far from resenting these lessons, the pupil, to please his tutor, once composed a sheaf of poems, and though the verses were very obscene, Perry, who thought them nevertheless hilarious, had had the manuscript leather bound in a prison shop and its title, "Dirty Jokes," stamped in gold.
Ramos was studying a sheaf of notes.
The wind occasionally ruffles a sheaf of papers.
Essenfeld withdrew a sheaf of letters at random.
Then she handed me her thick sheaf of medical records.
