penna

Similarly, I have used the form penna at iv 12 and vii 37, where C offers pinna.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

The sharp distinction early made between "contrapunctus 215 a penna" and "contrapunctus a mente" showed that composers and singers to a certain degree actually stood in rivalry in their production of passage work for voices.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

The word pen comes from the Latin penna, "a feather;" and as in olden days the ordinary pens were "quills" of birds, the name was very good.

From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

Swallow-like, English poetry had hung about the eaves or skimmed the surface of town and court; but now, like the lark, it soared into freer air— Cœtusque vulgares et udam Spernit humum fugiente penna.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee

If there is any word in that passage which could be considered coextensive in meaning with the word "sewell," it would undoubtedly be "penna."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

And the palaeographer knows that any scratch or scribbling, any probatio pennae or casual entry, may become important in tracing the wanderings of a manuscript.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe

The entry is found in the upper margin of fol. 51r and doubtless represents a probatio pennae on the part of a notary.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe

Moreover, if the probatio pennae on fol.53r is Carolingian,17 it would appear that the book had been in France at the beginning as well as at the end of the Middle Ages.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe

Suffice it to say that the list includes every carrion-feeder among flesh and fowl who assemble in immense flocks: "Nunquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit, aut plures presserunt aethere pennae."

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell