COMPLETE Curiosities of Literature, Vol.2 by DIsraeli-ck

neecheelok70 · Post by **neecheelok70** » June 14th, 2017, 5:50 am

May I have 58, 63, 65, 77, 78, 81, 82? Jim

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » June 14th, 2017, 8:42 am

absolutely, thank you jim!

neecheelok70 · Post by **neecheelok70** » June 18th, 2017, 6:15 pm

Here is 58. I researched for the id of A in Ams in one of the footnotes (a manuscript I assumed), but failed in my brief foray. I decided on Amsterdam, but it doesn't seem right. Any ideas?

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_58_disraeli_128kb.mp3 18.57 KB

19:48

Jim

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » June 18th, 2017, 8:36 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_60_disraeli_128kb.mp3
time is 27:15

Post by **Kitty** » June 19th, 2017, 12:06 am

neecheelok70 wrote:Here is 58. I researched for the id of A in Ams in one of the footnotes (a manuscript I assumed), but failed in my brief foray. I decided on Amsterdam, but it doesn't seem right. Any ideas?
https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_58_disraeli_128kb.mp3 18.57 KB
19:48
Jim

thank you Jim. I always love anecdotes about Richelieu, somehow this man was quite fascinating, although clearly not a very good person.

As for Amsterdam, I agree. My research also showed the book was printed in Amsterdam in 1687. However I think the entire "Ams" means "Amsterdam" and not "Amsterdam manuscript", because then it probably would have been written "A MS" and anyway, if it's printed it is technically not a "manuscript" in the original sense anymore.

I love it, that we discuss such "curiosities" as we find, embedded in the curiosities Disraeli tells us.

But: no need to change that. There were no errors in your reading at all, so I'll mark it PL ok. Well done, yet again.

Sonia

Post by **Kitty** » June 19th, 2017, 12:47 am

queenk8 wrote:https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_60_disraeli_128kb.mp3
time is 27:15

interesting article as well, I did not know anything about this Felton guy at all. Perfectly narrated, yet again, Kate

However there is a small inconsistency in the footnote, which maybe could be corrected, if you don't mind:

> at 12:15: “Lansdowne MSS. No. 203, f. 147.” – this “f.” does not mean “footnote” but rather “folio”, meaning it was on page 147, so I would either say folio or maybe page here

the rest was fine

Sonia

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » June 19th, 2017, 1:16 am

thank you all

neecheelok70 · Post by **neecheelok70** » June 19th, 2017, 4:06 am

Thanks, Sonia. I did wonder why the ms was ms and not MS as it always is. But how wonderful to have guessed almost right.

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » June 19th, 2017, 9:01 am

Kitty wrote:
queenk8 wrote:https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_60_disraeli_128kb.mp3
time is 27:15
interesting article as well, I did not know anything about this Felton guy at all. Perfectly narrated, yet again, Kate

However there is a small inconsistency in the footnote, which maybe could be corrected, if you don't mind:

> at 12:15: “Lansdowne MSS. No. 203, f. 147.” – this “f.” does not mean “footnote” but rather “folio”, meaning it was on page 147, so I would either say folio or maybe page here

the rest was fine

Sonia

Thanks, Sonia! I tried to find what the f. meant and it was certainly a wild goose chase and ultimately I made an uneducated guess, so thank you for the correction. I'll get that fixed today.

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » June 19th, 2017, 10:19 am

Here is the corrected file, with a time of 27:16:

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_60_disraeli_128kb.mp3

Post by **Kitty** » June 19th, 2017, 10:47 am

thank you Kate, perfectly corrected and PL ok now. And I agree, finding what f. means can prove difficult if one doesn't know the abbreviation. I had the same trouble in another text with d. Luckily Jim found out that it means "ditto", which made sense. The beauty of such a community is that there may always be one in the group who knows what it means.

Sonia

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » June 19th, 2017, 12:26 pm

Thank you both

Kalynda · Post by **Kalynda** » June 21st, 2017, 11:43 am

Here's 16 (9:39) ...

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_16_disraeli_128kb.mp3

Others to come soon.

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » June 21st, 2017, 12:02 pm

thank you

Post by **Kitty** » June 22nd, 2017, 1:51 am

Kalynda wrote:Here's 16 (9:39) ...
https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/literature2_16_disraeli_128kb.mp3
Others to come soon.

thank you Kalynda, beautifully and flawlessly read and as I already expected from you, the French poems are excellently recited

Yet another section to be marked PL ok.

As a small personal note, leaving over 3 seconds of silence between the intro disclaimer and the start of the essay felt a bit too long to me, but it's nothing that needs to be corrected for now. But maybe you might consider leaving out a bit less in your next section.

Sonia