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  • Documents, public and private, bearing dates nearly contemporary with that era, written in ink of like type, are still extant, confirming in a remarkable degree the "Secreta" formula, and establishing the fact that the first half of the twelfth century marks the epoch in which the "gall" or modern ink of today came into vogue.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • A less ancient "Secreta," signed by the Italian monk "Theophilus," who lived about the commencement of the eleventh century, is most interesting:

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • The silent recital of the Canon (which is sometimes called "Secreta", as by Durandus, "Rat.div. off.",

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Condi (but really, Rumsfeld and Cheney) as Secreta ...

    11/16/2004 2004

  • The Secret Chancellery became the depository of all State papers of great moment; and if we take the chief members of the constitution in order, and note the documents issuing from them which fell to the custody of the Secreta, we shall see how the great flow of Venetian history is to be followed here rather than in any other department of the archives.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • Secreta, preserved in the Convent of the Frari, at Venice.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • [176] _Secreta_ refers to _reliqua_, so that the other negotiations were secret, whereas the proposal to surrender had been made in presence of the war council.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Secreta Secretorum (supposititious work), Anon. 1702; from the Hebrew version by M. Gaster, 1907, 1908.

    Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • An early fifteenth-century translator of the _Secreta Secretorum_, for example, carries over into English the preface of the Latin translator:

    Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

  • "Monita Secreta," long since shown to be a forgery.

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

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