Among these curiousmanuscripts were several which had been used and translated by the celebrated Walter de Mapes for the entertainment of his Sovereign, Henry II.
It is unnecessary to refer to this phase of the matter further than to say that all the ancient and medieval European manuscripts which still exist were written by ecclesiastics, and doubtless bound by them as well.
He was not content, it seems, with the printed editions, but also collected many manuscripts on vellum, illustrated with beautiful illuminations.
Manuscripts of the ninth century, beautifully encased in ivory, silver and gold, and sometimes encrusted with precious stones, are still extant.
The Fourth Edition, in which many Passages and some Letters are restored from the Original Manuscripts .
Benjamin Franklin's Life and Writings A Bibliographical Essay On the Stevens' Collection of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Doctor Franklin By Henry Stevens of Vermont .
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous Letters now first published from the original manuscripts .
Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts executed by J.
A Guide to the Collector of Historical Documents Literary Manuscripts and Autograph Letters etc.
Illuminated Ornaments selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries.
In addition to the large collection of costly books of art with which this library is enriched, there are some of the rarest manuscripts and earliest printed books to be seen kept in glass cases in the Middle Hall.
He is now twenty-five years of age; and I do not think we have a better decipherer of manuscripts in the Church than he, since he is conversant with most of the Oriental tongues, although so young.
Persian manuscripts recently acquired, which formerly were in the library of the Mogul emperors at Delhi, bearing the stamp of Shah Akbar and Shah Jehan.
A collection of manuscripts regarding Halley is preserved among the Rigaud papers in the Bodleian library, Oxford; and many of his unpublished letters exist at the Record Office and in the library of the Royal Society.
From 1845 Halliwell was excluded from the library of the British Museum on account of the suspicion attaching to his possession of some manuscriptswhich had been removed from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
The truth is, that Johnson was so attentive, that in one of his manuscripts in my possession, he has marked in two columns, books borrowed, and books lent.
Whitlett and said that if we would procure him a sight of my father's most recentmanuscripts he would give us an opinion on the case.
A pile of manuscripts and charts lay before him; everything was in order.
A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticed in York Buildings for some years.
The volume appears to have been made up by William Penn the Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on the affairs of the navy found in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet.
She carried her venom to the length of tearing upmanuscripts upon which I was engaged; I submitted to this awhile, but eventually I protected myself by locking up my papers when I heard her knock at the door.
When my manuscripts came back to me I read them carefully, found faults in them, re-wrote them, and tried again, with the same result.
All the extant manuscriptsare singularly free from erasures and interlineations; page after page is clear as a page of print.
In this series of posthumous manuscripts there is a unique opportunity for making a study of the esoteric qualities of my father's style and methods, and on a future occasion I hope to present the result of my investigations in this direction.
I have seen the manuscripts of all his tales except The Scarlet Letter, which was destroyed by James T.
Among them are some splendid manuscripts from the library of Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and a vast collection of choice Aldines bound in the costliest manner.
We strolled into the spacious town library, open, of course, to all strangers, and could wish for no better occupation than to con the curious old books and the manuscripts that it contains.
Czecho-Slovakia, various documents and historical manuscripts removed from the Royal Castle of Prague.
Among the manuscripts what gratified me most was the manuscript of the Gerusalemme liberata of Tasso.
I also inspected the original manuscripts of the Pastor Fido of Guarini and of the Suppositi of Ariosto.
Poole, that both manuscriptsare originals, and in the handwriting of their eminent authors.
The collection contains no letters or manuscripts of Shakespeare.
And fear not, if the Editor refuse Your work, he has no more from which to choose; The Literary Microbe shall bring forth Millions of Manuscripts too bad to use.
As then the Poet for his morning Sup Fills with a Metaphor his mental Cup, Do you devoutly read your Manuscripts That Someone may, before you burn them up!
Howells, writing at a later time, quite naturally included it among the several manuscriptswhich Clemens read aloud to him.
My manuscripts and notes and private books and many of my letters are there, and there are a trunkful or two of such things in the attic.
The manuscripts for which I give a hundred thousand francs pay me better than work by an unknown author who asks six hundred.
Yes, gentlemen, I have eleven hundred manuscripts submitted to me at this moment; ask Gabusson.
Why, I have eleven hundred manuscripts on hand, as you know!
So one tolerably chilly September morning Lucien went down the Rue de la Harpe, with his two manuscriptsunder his arm.
I am indebted to the curator and trustees of the Bishop Museum for so kindly placing at my disposal the valuable manuscripts in the museum collection, and to Dr.
Composed by Keaulumoku in 1700 and translated from manuscripts preserved exclusively in her majesty's family.
At the top of the house and approached by a narrow staircase and a ladder was a large loft, built by herself, for storing her husband's manuscripts and books.
After recording his failure to obtain manuscripts of The Scented Garden at Tunis he says: "To-day I am to see M.
Steinhauser died in 1866, his manuscripts were scattered, and Burton never heard of them again.
Such, then, was the woman and such the condition of the woman upon whom devolved the duty of considering the manuscripts of one of the most original men of the 19th century.
The most complete text of The Scented Garden is that now preserved in the library at Algiers, and there are alsomanuscripts in the libraries of Paris, Gotha and Copenhagen.
The swarms of servants and parasites which her good nature had attracted to her had been paid, or thrown, off; and the books and the mutilated manuscripts packed up.
Hundreds of invaluable manuscripts written by poets and sages, he said, require to be translated into English, and the need of the day is an Oriental Translation Fund.
The skipper having died, the manuscriptsfell into the hands of his widow, who sold them to a bookseller, who exposed them for sale.
On December 20th they were at Tunis, and Sir Richard ransacked the bazaar and button-holed people generally in order to get manuscripts of The Scented Garden, but without success.
He helped me most materially towards the compilation of his own biography, and gave me references to books and manuscripts so that the biography came comparatively easy to my hand.
The early manuscripts are far less corrected than the later ones, as you will see directly.
The romance of New Testament manuscripts is again enlarged; this time by the discovery of a papyrus fragment containing a part of the Gospel according to St. Matthew.
Its actual history, of course, is beyond discovery, but its appearance amongst the world of scholars reminds us of the strangely varied channels through which Greek manuscripts of the New Testament have come down to us.
The doctor had all the manuscripts in his study, and was to go over them with the professors, the majority to decide which was the best.
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