Hexameron

• “Among the works composed by Chopin in 1837 was one of the Variations on the March from I Puritani, which were published under the title Hexameron: Morceau de Concert.”

  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

• “Hexameron", or work on the six days of creation, which is divided into seven treatises, and which opens with a dialogue between the author and Constantine, one of his disciples.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “St. Gregory of Nyssa on the creation of man and the "Hexameron" of”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “A manuscript copy of his "Hexameron", or treatise on the six days of creation in five books with a curious geographical drawing, is one of the treasures in the Bibliotheque Nationale in”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “Only I should prefer to play the "Hexameron" last, so as to finish with orchestra.”

  Letters

• “In his translation of Basil's Hexameron (also a later work), for example, Aelfric says that on the fifth day, God created fish, whales, and birds, but resigns the "creopendan wyrmas" ( "creeping reptiles") to the sixth day.”

  Snakes in the water and other discoveries

• “Bonaventure delivered his magisterial Collations on the Hexameron (Collationes in Hexaemeron).”

  Fictionaut: Amputee

• “In the time of Tsar Simeon, himself an author, considerable literary activity prevailed; among the more remarkable works of this period was the _Shestodnev_, or Hexameron, of John the exarch, an account of the creation.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

• “Then he pointed out the _Hexameron_ of Torquemada and the _Tableau de l'Inconstance des Démons_, by Delancre; he drew his finger down the leather back of Delrio's _Disquisitiones Magicae_ and set upright the”

  The Magician

• “Collationes in Hexameron" is a work of the same kind, but its title, which did not originate with Bonaventure, is somewhat misleading.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

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