Crossword-Solution: ALBUS 5 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Among them are three manuscripts known as Liber albus I, Liber ruber II, and Liber albus III, which contain an extremely valuable series of documents.[317] § VIII In the York fabric rolls appear from time to time expenses for writing, illuminating, and binding church books; but we know little or nothing about the Chapter library, if such existed.

This, flying open, discovered a fine yellow petticoat, beautifully edged round the bottom with a narrow piece of half gold lace which was now almost become fringe: beneath this appeared another petticoat stiffened with whalebone, vulgarly called a hoop, which hung six inches at least below the other; and under this again appeared an under-garment of that colour which Ovid intends when he says, ----Qui color albus erat nunc est contrarius albo.

The idea that it derives from the Latin _albus_, white, and was given to England by Julius Caesar in allusion to the cliffs, is refuted by mention of "Albion" in _De Mundo_, a Greek treatise formerly attributed to Aristotle, written three hundred years before Caesar's invasion.

There is nothing better of its kind than the description in the first satire of the omnipresent poetaster of the reign of Nero, with his affected recitations of tawdry, sensuous, and soulless verse (15): Scilicet haec populo pexusque togaque recenti et natalicia tandem cum sardonyche albus sede leges celsa, liquido cum plasmate guttur mobile conlueris, patranti fractus ocello.

Albus ut obscuro deterget nubila caelo 15 Saepe Notus neque parturit imbris Perpetuo, sic tu sapiens finire memento Tristitiam vitaeque labores Molli, Plance, mero, seu te fulgentia signis Castra tenent seu densa tenebit 20 Tiburis umbra tui.