disjecta

Most major museums, and numerous universities in Germany, Britain, and the United States have study collections of what J.D. Beazley, the father of twentieth-century vase scholarship, called disjecta membra (scattered parts).

'The Medici Conspiracy': An Exchange Todeschini, Cecilia 2006

The boudoir in question was “nothing but the disjecta membra of a once important bank account,” he wrote; “it reeks money, it exudes costliness—very likely the chairs are stuffed with curled coupons—but to an art-loving mind it is a dreary, poverty-smitten waste.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

The boudoir in question was “nothing but the disjecta membra of a once important bank account,” he wrote; “it reeks money, it exudes costliness—very likely the chairs are stuffed with curled coupons—but to an art-loving mind it is a dreary, poverty-smitten waste.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

The film, shot in black and white-black for coffee, white for cigarettes-is a filmic disjecta membra of scenes anchored only by coffee and cigarettes as props.

Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film? 2004

In the same cabinet with the preceding fragment, the following occurred among other ‘disjecta membra’.

Waverley 2004

The film, shot in black and white-black for coffee, white for cigarettes-is a filmic disjecta membra of scenes anchored only by coffee and cigarettes as props.

Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film? 2004

Contributing to this foetor was the smell emanating from the table, whose surface was littered with the vestiges of various meals—the decaying fragments of a catfish; the partially gnawed disjecta membra of a chicken; a beef bone to which waxy gobbets of congealed fat continued to cling.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

As she led the way westward past a long line of areas which, through the distortion of their paintless rails, revealed with increasing candour the disjecta membra of bygone dinners, Lily felt that Rosedale was taking contemptuous note of the neighbourhood; and before the doorstep at which she finally paused he looked up with an air of incredulous disgust.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

As she led the way westward past a long line of areas which, through the distortion of their paintless rails, revealed with increasing candour the disjecta membra of bygone dinners, Lily felt that Rosedale was taking contemptuous note of the neighbourhood; and before the doorstep at which she finally paused he looked up with an air of incredulous disgust.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

As she led the way westward past a long line of areas which, through the distortion of their paintless rails, revealed with increasing candour the disjecta membra of bygone dinners, Lily felt that Rosedale was taking contemptuous note of the neighbourhood; and before the doorstep at which she finally paused he looked up with an air of incredulous disgust.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987