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which revolve hold It m the correct plane. 
The scanning device on the Orco-Graphic 

Reader presents such difficulty in use that 

it would not be practical to read unper-
forated film on it except where only 

occasional shifting was involved. News-
papers, then, while they can be read at 

1 5 x require too much shifting, but at I 3 x 
they are not large enough for easy reading. 
Most library microfilm except newspaper 

is photographed at reductions less than I 5 x 
and even I3 x. This machine will project 
a bright sharp image of unperforated film at 

I 3 x or perforated at I 5 x. ' 

New Cooperative Research Project 
ANNOUNCEMENT is made of a n<!w co-

operative research project to prepare 
annotated lists and guides for: ( 1) medieval 
and Renaissance Latin translations from 
ancient Greek; and (2) medieval and Renais-
~ance Latin commentaries on ancient Greek 
and Latin authors. 

The list of translations will survey Latin 
translations, produced from antiquity down 
to A.D. 16oo, of Greek authors who wrote 
before A.D. 6oo. It will contain such in-

. formation as the names of translators with 
short · biographical data; date, place, and 
circumstances under which individual trans-
lations were made; incipits and explicits ,· 
references to manuscripts and printed editions 
containing the translations; and to recent 
scholarly literature on individual translators. 
This list will therefore provide a guide to 
the literary and documentary evidence avail-
able for an evaluation of the survival, re-
discovery, and reception in the Latin West of 
ancient Greek writings from antiquity through 
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to 
A.D. 16oo. 

The list of commentaries will include in-
formation similar to that for translations 
regarding Latin commentaries, made from 
ancient times through A.D. x6oo, on authors 
of Greek and Latin antiquity who wrote 
before A.D. 6oo. It will, however, for the 
present at least, exclude commentaries on 
Aristotle; on medical, legal, and canonistic 
works; on the Bible; and on mediaeval Latin 
authors. The listing of commentaries, which 

represent a common but comparatively neg-
lected branch of literature, will supplement 
information contain;d in catalogs of old li-
braries and should provide tangible proof 
for an appraisal of the use or lack of use 
made of ancient authors through the cen-
turies before A.D. x6oo. 

The completed lists of medieval and Ren-
aissance Latin translations and commentaries 
should have a direct value for scholars in 
the fields· of history, literature, philosophy, 
and science. They should serve to illustrate 
and illuminate an important chapter in the 
development of scholarship from antiquity 
through the centuries to A.D. x6oo. 

The project has been approved by the 
Committee on Renaissance Studies of the 
American Council of Learned Societies; by 
the American Philological Association; and 
b;v the Medieval Academy of America. 

The following scholars are members of 
the editorial board: R. ]. Clements, Harvard; 
M .. E. Cosenza, Brooklyn College;]. Hutton, 
Cornell University; P. Kibre, Hunter Col-
lege; P. 0. Kristeller, Columbia; D. P. Lock-
wood, Haverford; M. R. P. McGuire, 
Catholic University of America; B. Marti, 
Bryn Mawr; R. V. Merrill, University of 
Chicago; E. M. Sanford, Sweet Briar; ]. ]. 
Savage, Fordham; ]. R. Strayer, Princeton; 
A. Taylor, University of California, Berke-
ley; S. H. Thomson, University of Colorado; 
B. L. Ulman, University of North Carolina. 

Inquiries regarding the project may be 
directed to any editor in the above list. 

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