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Manuscript

Volcanic ash preserved some of the Roman library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.


1762 in art

Horace Walpole begins publication of Anecdotes of Painting in England, based on George Vertue's manuscript notes.

Abertijne Malcourt

The only record of his having been a composer is the attribution to "Malcort" in a Ferrarese manuscript of the textless rondeau Malheur me bat; while this Malcort may have been Hendrick Malecourt, who was a singer in Bergen op Zoom around the same time, and worked directly with Obrecht, Abertijne Malcourt is currently considered to be the most likely candidate.

Battle of Degsastan

Áedán's army included the Bernician exile Hering, son of the former Bernician king Hussa; his participation is mentioned by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (manuscript E, year 603), and may indicate dynastic rivalry among the Bernicians.

Believe as You List

For several decades in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, it was generally believed that the play was lost, destroyed in John Warburton's kitchen; but a manuscript of the play was discovered in 1844, and published in 1849.

Black Book of Chirk

Aneurin Owen called it Manuscript A, of the "Venedotian code".

Bower Manuscript

The Bower Manuscript is named after Hamilton Bower, the British Army intelligence officer who obtained it from a local inhabitant in Kucha early in 1890, while on a confidential mission for the government of British India.

Brenhinoedd y Saeson

P survives in a single medieval manuscript:
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS. Peniarth 20, written c.1330, probably at the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis (Llanegwestl).

Charles Fairfield

A copy by him of Teniers's Le Bonnet Rouge was "of the most striking perfection of finish and tone, capable of deceiving any one could it have but age" (manuscript notes in Anderdon, Collectanea Biographica, print room, British Museum).

Crawford Aramaic New Testament manuscript

It is held in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, and is sometimes called the "Crawford MS" because it is so inscribed on the backstrip after having previously been in the library of the oriental manuscript collector Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.

David Conforte

The original manuscript was brought from Egypt by R. David Ashkenazi of Jerusalem, who, to judge from a note in his preface, gave it the title Ḳore ha-Dorot, and had it printed in Venice in 1746, without mentioning the name of the author.

Giles Wigginton

He was also the author of Giles Wigginton his Catechisme (London, 1589), and of several theological treatises in manuscript that came into the possession of Dawson Turner.

Helen Crump

In "Helen, the Authoress", for example, Helen has written a book and uses her evenings to rewrite the manuscript before its publication by a Richmond firm.

Henry Atkinson

Henry Atkinson manuscript, compiler of an early (1694-5) music manuscript in Northumberland

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Hesychius of Alexandria

The best edition is by Moriz Wilhelm Constantin Schmidt (1858–1868), but no complete comparative edition of the manuscript has been published since it was first printed by Marcus Musurus (at the press of Aldus Manutius) in Venice, 1514 (reprinted in 1520 and 1521 with modest revisions).

Historia Norwegiæ

The only extant manuscript, in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie and kept at Brechin Castle, Scotland, is fragmentary; what we have of the Historia is found on folios 1r-12r.

Hugh Edwin Strickland

For this society Strickland corrected, enlarged and edited the manuscript of Agassiz for the Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae (1848).

Idris Davies

After his death over two hundred of his manuscript poems and a short verse-play, together with the typescripts of his comprehensive wartime diaries, were deposited at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.

L. Brooks Leavitt

Among the manuscripts owned and collected by Leavitt, who turned to book collecting after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, was an original Shakespeare First Folio, as well as the original manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, written in Lawrence's own hand.

L15

Lectionary ℓ 15, a 13th-century, Greek manuscript of the New Testament

Luís Vaz de Torres

The original official manuscript account reappeared in the collections of Sir Thomas Phillips during the 19th century.

Maecenas Foundation

Centered in the city of Basel, it came to notice in 2005 when Swiss art dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, the owner of the Codex Tchacos, which contains the Gospel of Judas, informed the press that the manuscript would be donated to Maecenas for conservation and publication.

Marco Polo – The Journey

It is one of the Renaissance's more eclectic works, covering not only the instrumental istanpittas of the Italian Trecento and earlier Franciscan laudas, but also Byzantine chant, girl songs from Cyprus preserved in the Manuscript 1203 kept in Iviron monastery, Persian and Arabic dances, traditional Music of Mongolia and Ancient Chinese ceremonial music.

Migration Period art

The spirals and scrolls in the enlarged opening letters—found in the earliest manuscripts such as the 7th century Cathach of St. Columba manuscript—borrows in style directly from Celtic enamels and La Tene metalworking motifs.

Minuscule 65

Then the manuscript belonged to Robert Harley, and to his son Edward Harley.

Minuscule 701

Thomas Payne, chaplain in the British embassy in Constantinople, presented the manuscript to Charles Herzog, Duke of Marlborough, in 1738.

Minuscule 88

The manuscript was written by Evagrius and compared with Pamphilus copy at Caesarea.

Minuscule 92

In 1485 the manuscript belongs to John Camerarius, bishop of Worms.

Miroslav Gospel

The first to discover and study the manuscript were three Russian scholars: Vladimir Stasov, Fyodor Buslayev, and Nikodim Kondakov.

Monieux

The evidence of this attack by Crusaders on the community is indicated through the discovery of a manuscript in the Cairo Geniza.

MS 13

Minuscule 13, a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament

Niccolao Manucci

He would then send home the manuscript for "Storia do Mogor" which was lent to the French historian François Catrou in 1707.

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena.

Nürnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a

After Pol's death in 1532, his library, presumably including this manuscript, passed to Innichen Abbey in South Tyrol.

Otho-Corpus Gospels

Although it is not known where or when this manuscript was made, the similarities to the manuscripts noted above make it likely that it was made in one of the monasteries in the network of monasteries founded by St. Columba.

Pierre Alamire

Manuscripts copied by Alamire can be found in many European libraries, including the Habsburg court library in Vienna, in London (the Henry VIII manuscript), the Vatican (a manuscript for Pope Leo X), Brussels, Munich, and Jena, which has the court books for Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Pradyota dynasty

Pradyota dynasty is an ancient Indian dynasty, which ruled over Avanti in the present-day Madhya Pradesh state, though most of the Puranas (except a manuscript of the Brahmanda Purana, preserved in the University of Dhaka) say that this dynasty succeeded the Barhadratha dynasty in Magadha.

Reginald of Canterbury

The largest surviving version of his poems is in Bodleian Library manuscript Laud misc 40, which was probably a presentation copy to one of Reginald's correspondents, Baldwin, a monk of the cathedral chapter of Rochester Cathedral.

Richard S. Prather

He donated his papers to the Richard S. Prather Manuscript Collection at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, Wyoming.

Rochefoucauld Grail

The three-volume manuscript was sold by its previous owner, Mr Joost Ritman, for the benefit of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam.

Series C Banknotes

An excerpt from a sixteenth-century manuscript kept by the Royal Irish Academy also features.

Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1st Baronet

These included the only manuscript of the Ormulum, which from internal evidence belonged to Aylesbury before it passed to Jan van Vliet.

Sowing Season

The song title "Sowing Season" is a reference to the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by author Stephen King in which the character Mort has written a manuscript entitled "Sowing Season".

Tau Cross

a tau-rho ligature used to abbreviate the Greek word for cross in very early New Testament manuscripts such as P66, P45 and P75.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).

The Tao of Physics

I lived in England then circa 1972, and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript chapter by chapter.

This Side of Paradise

On September 4, 1919, Fitzgerald gave the manuscript to a friend to deliver to Maxwell Perkins, an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.

Uncial 076

The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk.

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

In May 2006, VWML Online was launched which hosts a number of the library's indexes to manuscript collections, together with its index to mummers' plays and the Roud Folk Song and Broadside Indexes, the largest of their kind in the English language.

Ystoria Mongalorum

A manuscript of a variant of the Ystoria, written by Minorite friar C. de Bridia, perhaps based on Joannes's lectures, appeared on the art market in the 1950s and was purchased for Yale University.


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