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| Scrivnerias Compendium of Ancient Knowledge; enjoy our oldworld atmosphere | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 27 2005, 10:10 AM (234 Views) | |
| Scrivneria | Jan 27 2005, 10:10 AM Post #1 |
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Greetings all, I am Matthias Markus Scrivneri the 17th, from a long line of archivist Emperors. Recent acquisitions here in the Compendium of Ancient knowledge include a copy of the Tome of Ultimate Summonings, and a rare Vashtar flame statuary. *be careful..it really does split flames* We are also working on interpreting a text presented to us by Papa C at any rate, please peruse our volumes at length, we have a most comfortable reading room to your left..decorated in dark mahogany with burgundy leather overstuffed armchairs and ottomans for your reading ease. If you feel a bit of a chill, let me know, and I will light a fire in the black marbe fireplace. We also have a fine selection of beverages that you may enjoy, but please be very careful with them around the books. If you have any questions please let me know, I'll be here, but I do get absorbed in reading the archives, so please crash the small gong you find here, and I"ll be along shortly. |
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| Kein Aber | Jan 27 2005, 03:04 PM Post #2 |
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*K A walks into shop and looks around* When he said he wanted to open a shop I never imagined how nice it would be. I have never seen so many Ancient Books and other Ancient Items gathered in one place. *Walks to counter see it Gong and give it a slight touch of the wand* GONG! You have such a nice store. I was wondering if you could help find a copy of the governmental structure of the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans. I working on a comparitive study of the two typs of governments. Do you have any material that could help? |
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| Scrivneria | Jan 27 2005, 06:26 PM Post #3 |
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Many thanks for your kind words of appreciation. I am glad to have preserved this small piece of the Old World for those of us who study these matter. In regards to your qustion, offhand I know we have the major outputs of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Boethius, and Antonius Cicero I if any of those would be of assistance to you. A great many are philosophical in nature, but I think they have also some governmental critiques....let me do some more digging in the catalogue*produces laptop fom under the counter* with this I can check everything in our network and database...after all we are technologically up to date here at the compendium of knowledge.... hmm I show the following webpage that may be of interest:'AncientGovernment Sourcebook] I might also recommend reading some of the less poetic outputs of Virgil...I hear he was a bit of an historian besides being a poet. Here are the Commentaries of Boethius, and Plato's Republic for starters. Please read them at your lesiure, and please be careful, these aren't the originals, but they are late Renaissance reproductions from one of the original Gutenberg presses, so they are still quite valuable. Consolation of Philosophy Plato's Republic |
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| Kein Aber | Jan 27 2005, 07:05 PM Post #4 |
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*K A quickly reviews the references and smiles* Scrivneria indeed these Books shall be of great service in my comparison of governments. They cover the Roman in detail and the Greeks as well. Yes they are what I have been seeking. How much do I owe fine sir? |
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| Jack_Tarr | Jan 28 2005, 03:00 PM Post #5 |
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Exhaulted Master - Dominion of Darryayah
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*Walks in, looks around and is somewhat overwhelmed by all he sees.* "I have been meaning to get in here for weeks but the goings on at the new marina have been keeping me on my toes. What have you on the Phoenecians?" |
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| Scrivneria | Jan 29 2005, 08:17 AM Post #6 |
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Use of the Compendium is free unless you plan on keeping the books indefinately. I really only charge for taking away from the archive permanently, damages, or the purchase of artifacts. Enjoy! I'm glad you found what you were looking for. My estimate for those two books is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 breves, or the rough equivalent.
An understandable problem good Jack. Regarding your question, off the top of my head they were the originators of purple dye, and its only source for several centuries, making purple the color of choice for rulers and the upper social strata. Other than that I'm afraid that requires some digging into the archival structure....let me just look in the back a bit. Ring the bell if you fear I may have met with unfortunate circumstances in the deep vaults. |
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| Kein Aber | Jan 29 2005, 08:52 AM Post #7 |
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Scrivneria Thank you the price is fair however the material of such value it should be avaible to all. I intend to use it as a reference for may paper and shall return it promptly. I've also brought a shop warming gift. Welcome to Market street.
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| Scrivneria | Feb 6 2005, 04:58 PM Post #8 |
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Well, I've been digging for some time in our archives to find a book of ancient music to present in recital, and seeking more information about the Phoencians. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything as yet for either. Many thanks Kein Aber for your shopwarming gift. The sugar will keep me going for days as I continue to search. OOC: Sorry i've been away so long, I presented my junior voice recital at school this last week and have been spending a lot more RL time getting ready for it. Also, I am seeking a good Bass Aria to sing for honors auditions in about three weeks, and learning duet music to sing the next couple of weekends with my soprano partner in the Landon vocal small ensemble. Anywho, hope to hear from more of you soon! |
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| Kein Aber | Feb 6 2005, 07:03 PM Post #9 |
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Thank you I've wondered where you went. A junior voice recital? That's sound fun and scary at the same time. How did to go? I can only imagine the work involved with something like that. I, have been working in the World's Fair, setting up and the like. Not to busy yet there but things are picking up. So my shop here may get a little slower sevice that I would like. I should have put a sign in the window. Glad you enjoyed the welcome gift. Should get back, shall we talk later? Bye Scrivneria, may business prosper. *K A waves as he leaves* |
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| Scrivneria | Feb 11 2005, 05:44 PM Post #10 |
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Indeed Kein Aber it is both exciting and scary at the same time, as is most of being a vocal performance major. Most of the scary is trying to keep up with the homework, and most of the exciting is performing... |
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| Kein Aber | Feb 11 2005, 06:03 PM Post #11 |
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But you did it! And that is what really counts. |
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| Semartica | Feb 11 2005, 09:55 PM Post #12 |
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Mikail Vlodmekov, Private Investigations.
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I am looking for Russian poetry. Do you heve such a zing? |
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| Scrivneria | Feb 19 2005, 02:59 PM Post #13 |
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Russian poetry, hmmmm I know we have Russian music and Russian spells, but poetry? Try the searching out deep archives here and you might found some poetry set to song here |
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| Nutterstown | Feb 19 2005, 03:40 PM Post #14 |
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General of DSP
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Can i have some Russian music please? ..its quite cool...
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| Scrivneria | Feb 20 2005, 07:16 PM Post #15 |
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Certainly you may have some Russian Music. Being Unknowledge of any links I can at the very least give you this list of Composers, and a few recommended works from what I know of Russian music. Sergei Rachmaninov: Vespers(a complete setting), Any of his piano works are gorgeous, and the piece "Vocalise" played by Yascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman. Modest Mussorgsky(Modeste Mussorgskij)-Boris Godunov(complete opera) Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, and The Firebird Suite Shostakovich: Ballet Suite, and any of his symphonies Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: the symphonies are marvelous also, any recordings you can find by Bassos Boris Christoff or his sucessor Nicolai Ghiarouv will be worth your time to listen to, and both do Russian opera. |
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..its quite cool...

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