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This book consists of indications of battles and wars from the year 1 to 1999. The battles are printed in micrographic text vertically, with the yearly dates placed vertically in the center of the pages. Miranda Maher designates on the cover that "Years with No Acts of 'OPEN AND DECLARED ARMED HOSTILE CONFLICT' are Indicated with a Perpendicular LIne. Perhaps They Were Periods of Peace." Actually there is only one red, vertical line in the year 329, indicating no battles. The book is printed on light weight, beige paper with repeating, gilded Fleurs de Lis, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text is taken from Genesis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The entire text of the Book of Exodus from the Old Testament is written in Hebrew creating a picture of the Red Sea parting and the Israelites passing through. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text from "Ethics of the Fathers/Pirkay Avot" is written into the landscape of Safed in Hebrew print letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a print detail from the original piece that is serigraph on ceramic of the first sections from the Book of Genesis. The ceramic piece is installed in the church of SS. Annunziata di Alessandria. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author writes, "Israeli artist Jacob El-Hanani has created his own variation on calligram micrography in his Constructivist style, using minute cursive Hebrew script to form a textured carpet of writing. Although the result differs from the traditional micrograph and calligram, his perseverance proves El-Hanani to be a true descendant of the Medieval masorah scribe." The Sackner Archive holds a work like Arvin has described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing depicts a grid of Heraldic emblems with micrographic writing around each of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing consists of the linear, almost micrographic, handwritten ink text upon which two abstract figures executed in gray-black watercolor are superimposed . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colored image of Jerusalem is outlined with hand printed Hebrew text of the entire book of Leviticus from the Testament. The main chapters of the book are written slightly larger format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing consists of three uneven columns of words with the suffix of "mania." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The background of this drawing is an unevenly painted, grey surface. The markings are drawn in columnar form. On the upper right corner, there is a drawing of an opened book with facing pages of micrography. Melin's music scores are conjectured and not intended to be played although in fact, a few have been performed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main image is a linear music score with a 17 x 12.5 cm rectangle in its center. A vertical columnar music score is drawn its center. Three lines of micrographic text have been written between two rows of the music score. Melin's music scores are conjectured and not intended to be played although in fact, a few have been performed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sculpture is depicted on page 9 of exhibition catalogue, "Sculptures," Galerie Antoine Candau, 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bovine atlas (first cervical vertebra), Indian ink

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This drawing is an exposition of Psalm One. Boshoff comments, "I once, in 1976, gave talks on the Psalms in an old age home, and at one time, in the early eighties, I thought it might be a good idea to write notes on all the psalms like the ones on Psalm One." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Boshoff, this is "A hand-drawn work of small circles, based upon those small bits of paper that fall out of a paper punch. The work was once enlarged and printed in an edition of ten silk-screen prints." Boshoff is referring to "chads" an arcane word that became famous in American politics during the vote recount in Floida for the 2000 American presidential campaign of Bush and Gore. On a number of circles, Boshoff handprinted two or three clusters of letters, e.g., EN, RUS, LOF, VIS, SO, AR, and so forth. The significance of these letters is not readily apparent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents A large micrographic Bible illustration depicting Manoah and the angel, Samson and the lion, and Samson and Delilah. The story of Samson from Judges is told in three scenes. In the first Manoah and hsi wife are visited by an Andel of the Lord, who tells them that the wife, previously barren, will conceive. Manoah makes a sacrifice on an altar which the angel miraculously causes to burst into flame by touching it with his staff. Manoah and his wife are amazed. In the middle of the image is Samson, their now grown son, killing a lion with the strenght the lord has given him. In the final scene, Samson falls asleep on Delilah's lap, soon to have his hair cut off and to be blinded. In the distance are the cities of the Philistines and the temple Samson will one day pull down. The five chapters from Judges (13-17) that tell Samson's story are given at teh bottom half of the sheet in a blackletter font, most like Textur, most of it in miniscule letters. But even more amazing is the fact...