Dec 25, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “‘You are my son.'”
(Dominus dixit ad me: Fill-) us meus es tu. Ego hodie genu- i te. Ps(alm). Quare fre-(muerunt gentes) In sole posuit...
Dec 24, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “…the world was subject to him.”
(orbis terraru(m) erat subdit(us) illi Ps(alm) Domini est t(erra) Euouae V. Exquirebant pue- rum Maria et Joseph Re. Inter cognotoes et notos exin Pastores in- venerunt Mari- the world/universe was subject to him. The earth is the Lord's...
Dec 11, 2018 Hillacre Bookhouse: Fed Up With Fads, Wary of Cults, and Independent Enough
“At Riverside, Connecticut, between the road and the river, lies an acre of land, long and narrow and tilted up a little toward the west, so that the dwellers by the road at the top may look across the valley to the setting sun. Half...
Dec 08, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “…bone now from my bones…”
V. Os nu(n)c de ossibus meis et caro de carn(e) mea. R. Fortitudo et decor indume(n)tum eius: byssus et purpura...
Dec 03, 2018 Book of the Week — Prayers Written at Vailima
"Deliver us from fear and favor; from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have mercy on each in his deficiency; let him not be cast down; support the stumbling on the way, and give at last rest to the weary." -- Robert Louis Stevenson Prayers Written at...
Nov 30, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “…of the Apostle and, embalming it with spices,…”
(Maximilla Christo amabilis corpus) Apolstoli optimo loco cum aro- matibus sepelivit Ps(alm) Laudate pue(ri) A(ntiphon) (Maximilla, a woman dear to Christ, too the body) of the Apostle and, embalming it with spices, buried it in the most honored place. Psalm. Praise the Lord, O you servants...
Nov 19, 2018 Book of the Week — Turkeys and Trees
"'Why don't we just stay poor,' said Mother, 'we're good at that.' 'Well alright, if that's what you want, but I met this guy who raises baby pigs, and he...
Nov 12, 2018 Book of the Week — Geographie des dames, ou, Almanach geographique-historique
"[This] little work...
Nov 05, 2018 Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
"That Catesby, Winter, Fawlks with many other Traitours lately attainted of high treason, would blowe vp with Gun-powder in the Parliament house, the King, the Prince, the Lls. Spirituall and Temporall, the Iudges of the realme, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and many other subjects...
Oct 29, 2018 Book of the Week — The Pit and the Pendulum
Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound -- the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its beating. Then a pause in which all is blank. Then again sound, and motion, and touch -- a tingling...