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Etymology: Middle English, written declaration, from Anglo-French, from Latin libellus, diminutive of liber book
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Such a writing then became known as a libellus famosus, 1. a scurrilous or defamatory pamphlet.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The case, called a "libellus" under church law, was filed this week with the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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The case, called a "libellus" under church law, was filed this week with the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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When the text was first printed as distinct from circulating in manuscript, at Bologna in 1472, it was proudly subtitled "libellus aureus"—the "golden book."
Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011
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When the text was first printed as distinct from circulating in manuscript, at Bologna in 1472, it was proudly subtitled "libellus aureus"—the "golden book."
Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011
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Castiglione's work was first printed in 1528 at the Aldine Press in Venice, six years after "devices" were gathered under the rubric Emblematum libellus by Andreas Alciati in Milan.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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I cannot get the piece to load for a second look, but I recall Sambrook saying that he "didn't agree" with Aitken's libellus.
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Michael Scot in the early thirteenth century referred in De secretis naturae to original sin without remarking on menstrual blood per se, see part 1, chap. 8 (Forma foetus generati in matrice) published in Alberti Magni De secretis mulierum libellus (Strasbourg, Lazarus Zetznerus, 1601), 271.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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_Explicit libellus de Politia conseruatiua maris_.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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