Israeli, Isaac ben Solomon
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Israeli, Isaac ben Solomon (
c.855–955). Jewish philosopher. Israeli was court physician in Kairouan, the capital of the Maghreb. He was the author of
Kitāb al-Hudūd (The Book of Definitions) which attempts to define such concepts as the soul, wisdom, the intellect, and nature.
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Monumental Brassiness
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/12/2000; ; 435 words
; Why is it that brass players get away with clowning...beginning probably with the Canadian Brass) is almost expected when the brass comes to town. It must be that...Certainly the members of the Monumental Brass Quintet, which played...
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Bishop backs guide to county's brasses
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 7/23/2002; 401 words
; ...books dedicated to brasses was launched at the weekend. The Monumental Brass Society is compiling...book, called The Monumental Brasses of County Durham...exhibition of brass rubbings reproduced...of monumental brasses and family history...per copy to the ...
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Unique art of brass rubbing in danger of extinction
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/10/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Second World War, a brass rubbing craze swept...the queues of earnest brass rubbers waiting outside...theft and damage of the brasses, and vicars began locking...the original medieval brasses are hidden under carpets...commissioned by the Monumental Brass Society to make facsimiles...
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Descendants of knights want brass back from Philly museum
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/13/2003; 567 words
; ...unsuccessfully to have the brass returned to the church...thinks returning the brass would provide historical...John Colby's side. Brasses, which often include...black market. Five brasses were stolen from churches...according to Britain's Monumental Brass Society. Gerald Western...
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Letter: Top brasses
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/14/2001; ; 292 words
; ...tourism. The "brasses" in brass rubbing centres are merely...are superb works of art. Brasses are a vital historical resource. In the Monumental Brass Society there exists a...their study. NIGEL SAUL Monumental Brass Society, Egham...
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Brass Ensemble Offers Workshop
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/4/1993; 302 words
; ...The world-renowned Canadian Brass ensemble will perform in a...Canadian Embassy. Several brass instrument students from the...been adopted by the Canadian Brass, considered North America...involvement and the formation of the Monumental Brass Quintet, the school...
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Aye, there's the (brass) rub; British hobby rubs off on Audrey Gregory
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 2/7/2005; ; 613 words
; ...Children learn the rudiments of brass rubbing when they rub a penny...note, Gregory said. But monumental brasses are popular in churches and...It is the second-oldest brass in Great Britain, she said. Brasses from the 1200s to the 1600s...displayed on her walls are brass rubbings of ...
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Metamorphosis.1 Linear Contrasts.1 Wireless Fantasy.1 Of Wood and Brass.1 Computer Piece No. 1.1 Two Sketches for a Computer Piece.1 The Creation: Prologue;2 Interlude;3 Epilogue.4 Missa brevis5
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Wireless Fantasy.1 Of Wood and Brass.1 Computer Piece No. 1...against each other in Of Wood and Brass (1965). Here the original...1971/2) is immediately more monumental than anything that has preceded it. Scored for choir and 10 brass instruments (and therefore...
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OBITUARY:Malcolm Norris
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/17/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...including the definitive Monumental Brasses (1977-78), and from 1992 was President of the Monumental Brass Society. Norris's interest...monuments and particularly monumental brasses was fostered from his schoolboy...
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Obituary: Walter Mendelsson
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...commemorative memorial brasses and stone monuments...Honorary Secretary of the Monumental Brass Society from 1974 until...1961 he joined the Monumental Brass Society, 10...University Association of Brass Collectors, had a...magnum opus, A List of Monumental Brasses in ...
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monumental brass
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
monumental brass. Plate of brass or latten incised with a formalized image and inscription, let into a slab of stone as a funerary monument.
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monumental brasses
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...use. Tens of thousands of brasses were destroyed during the...indicate Flemish origin. A few brasses are in Glasgow and Edinburgh churches. The image of the brass can be transferred to paper...ball or with crayon. Rubbing brasses has been a popular activity...Bibliography: See J. Mann's ...
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brass, monumental
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
brass, monumental. A funerary monument consisting of an engraved sheet of brass, a golden yellow metal...sometimes to a tomb chest. Brasses, which were cheaper than...the majority of medieval brasses are in the Home Counties...north, although the Thornton Brass ( c. 1430) in St ...
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Brass
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
57. Brass See also 23. ART ; 270. METALS ; 305. ORNAMENTATION . chalcologue a student of brasses. chalcomancy a technique of divination by examining vessels of brass. chalcotript one who copies monumental brasses by taking rubbings.
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brass
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
brass. 1. Mixed metal, an alloy of copper...of an altar-tomb, it is not true brass, but an alloy of copper and tin...resin, enamels, and mastic. The monumental or memorial ‘brass’ once again became popular...
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