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August 22, 2006: Canada: Rare Manuscript Transcribed to Music
"Within the pages of a rare 450-year-old manuscript sitting in a vault at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia lie hundreds of lines of music that haven't been performed for centuries."
"The choral chants, illustrated with elaborate full-page illuminations, were written between 1554 and 1555 at a convent in present-day Belgium. By next June, the 440-page book and its deteriorating calf-skin covers will be restored, and a group of Australian singers will perform its songs of worship at Halifax's St. Mary's Basilica."
