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  • The first is Oskar Hecker's Boccaccio-Funde, and important early 1902 treatment of Boccaccio's manuscripts and the so-called parva libreria.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • The first is Oskar Hecker's Boccaccio-Funde, and important early 1902 treatment of Boccaccio's manuscripts and the so-called parva libreria.

    MS Chig. L. V. 176 Miglior acque 2008

  • Also influential from the time of Agrippa's studies at the University of Cologne were the voluminous scientific information amassed in the genuinely classical Natural History of Pliny the Elder and in the logical treatise Ars parva by the late medieval Catalan thinker Ramon Lull, on which Agrippa wrote a commentary.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • It seems definite, on the other hand, that the Missa Sine nomine was composed for King Ferdinand, a supposition encouraged by the distich found at the head of this mass in the Verona manuscript: “Ferdinande sacer inter divos referende cantica tinctoris suscipe parva tui” “O Ferdinand, saintly enough to be counted amongst the gods, accept these little compositions by Tinctoris”.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Fenton and Fenton 1931 report several species of stromatolites from the Shepard Formation: Collenia parva, Collenia clappii and Collenia undosa.

    Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Cosí la poco scrivibile storia di Petrarca è essenzialmente una storia di libri, strappati alla fuga temporis: quelli suoi, che crescono intrecciati e che vengono avanti l'uno dopo l'altro «in tam parva vite area» Fam.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • Other Cantabric species that seasonally spread into this ecoregion are the Cantabrian chamois (Rupicapra parva) and the highly endangered capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus).

    Northwest Iberian montane forests 2008

  • Cosí la poco scrivibile storia di Petrarca è essenzialmente una storia di libri, strappati alla fuga temporis: quelli suoi, che crescono intrecciati e che vengono avanti l'uno dopo l'altro «in tam parva vite area» Fam.

    Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005) Miglior acque 2008

  • Introduced animal species including nutria (Myocastor coypus), stone moroko fish (Pseudorasbora parva), and wels catfish (Siluris glanis) are having negative impacts.

    Po Basin mixed forests 2008

  • The endemic Cantabrian chamois (Rupicapra parva) occupies the high elevations of the Picos de Europa National Park, and the Somiedo Natural Park, with an estimated population of more than 8,000 individuals.

    Cantabrian mixed forests 2008

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