Sentence examples for classical manuscripts from inspiring English sources

The inner sanctum of the IAS is the climate-controlled Rosenwald rare book room in their main library, which holds priceless classical manuscripts and later texts.

Like the medieval monks who preserved brittle classical manuscripts on their wind-swept Atlantic retreats, certain new monastic individuals (N.M.I.'s for short) are preparing civilization's eventual revival.

Europe's rediscovery of the classical world during the Renaissance was intimately connected with a growing interest in antiquities and classical manuscripts.

Martin Hills Chichester, West Sussex Humanist philosophy, the transmission of ideas, censorship, the recovery of classical manuscripts and Renaissance religious attacks on perceived Epicurean heresies are some themes Stephen Greenblatt explores in his brilliant, elegant new work.

Art imitates life imitating art: "boustrophedon" describes the path that a plow takes as it moves back and forth in a field, the same serpentine path followed by rivers and by classical manuscripts that alternate between left-right and right-left lines of text.

The Byzantines also preserved and copied classical manuscripts, and they are thus regarded as transmitters of the classical knowledge, as important contributors to the modern European civilization, and as precursors of both the Renaissance humanism and the Slav Orthodox culture.

February 11 , 1380Terranuova, Italy October 30, 1459 Florence, Italy Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, (born February 11 , 1380 Terranuova, Tuscany [Italy] died October 30, 1459, Florence) Italian humanist and calligrapher, foremost among scholars of the early Renaissance as a rediscoverer of lost, forgotten, or neglected Classical Latin manuscripts in the monastic libraries of Europe.

Patrizi's early mastery of Greek and his interest in assembling a library of classical Greek manuscripts (Muccillo 1993) places him well within the tradition of seeking to restore the legacy of antiquity as a precondition for moving ahead to a "new" era.

The surviving libraries hold a vast number of classical and medieval manuscripts, most of which have been cataloged.

Perhaps the greatest service rendered to medicine by the church was the preservation and transcription of the Classical Greek medical manuscripts.

His was a double existence; largely unsuspected by colleagues, he spent his free time in the British Museum, examining manuscripts by classical authors, and publishing his findings in learned journals.