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41William Byrd — (c. 1540 ndash; 4 July 1623) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He cultivated many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music ProvenanceOur knowledge… …
42Suda — The Suda or Souda ( el. polytonic|Σοῦδα, also polytonic|Σουΐδας, Suidas ) is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world. It is an encyclopedic lexicon with 30,000 entries, many drawing from… …
43Matthew Paris — For the British newspaper columnist and former MP, see Matthew Parris. Self portrait of Matthew Paris from the original manuscript of his Historia Anglorum (London, British Library, MS Royal 14.C.VII, folio 6r). Matthew Paris (Latin, Matthæi… …
44George Croom Robertson — (March 10, 1842 – September 20, 1892) was a Scottish philosopher.He was born at Aberdeen. In 1857 he gained a bursary at Marischal College, and graduated M.A. in 1861, with the highest honours in classics and philosophy. In the same year he won a …
45James Planché — Infobox Writer name = James Robinson Planché imagesize = 200px caption = 1835 portrait by Henry Perronet Briggs birthdate = birth date|df=yes|1796|2|27 birthplace = Piccadilly, London deathdate = death date and age|df=yes|1880|5|30|1796|2|27… …
46Otho-Corpus Gospels — The incipit page from the Gospel of Mark from the Otho Corpus Gospels. The Otho Corpus Gospels is a badly damaged and fragmentary 8th century illuminated manuscript. It was part of the Cotton library and was mostly burnt in the 1731 fire at… …
47The History of Sir Charles Grandison — Title page of The History of Sir Charles Grandison The History of Sir Charles Grandison, commonly called Sir Charles Grandison, is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson first published in February 1753. The book was a response to Henry… …
48Hiroh Kikai — nihongo|Hiroh Kikai|鬼海 弘雄|Kikai Hiroo|extra=born 18 March 1945 is a Japanese photographer best known for his monochrome portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, a project he has pursued for over thirty years.Early yearsKikai was born in… …
49Muqaddimah — Not to be confused with Introduction to the Science of Hadith. The Muqaddimah (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون, Berber: Tazwarayt n Ibn Xeldun, meaning in English: Ibn Khaldun s Introduction), also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or the… …
50St. Albans Psalter — The St Albans Psalter, also known as the Albani Psalter or the Psalter of Christina of Markyate, is an English illuminated manuscript, one of several Psalters known to have been created at or for St Albans Abbey in the 12th century. [Rodney M.… …
