Sentence examples for extant book from inspiring English sources
The first extant book written in a Niger-Congo language was published in 1624.
The extant book contains preliminary matter, the complete text of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, and the Gospel of John through John 17:17.
The final extant book begins with a description of the nature of Christ, and that of the true Christian, who aims to be as similar as possible to both the Father and the Son.
The extant Books 11 20, from the second and third parts, cover the years 480 302 bc.
In the 1st century bce, Marcus Terentius Varro wrote the treatise De lingua Latina; the extant books of its section of etymology are valuable for their citations from Latin poets.
Christie's description demonstrated the significance of the book: its artistic qualities are outstanding, as is the case with so many other extant Books of Hours.
The revival of epic, and the secularization of the sacred hero, occurred in the extant third book of a lost and larger Virgilian epic, anonymously transmitted but known by the title Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa ("Charlemagne and Pope Leo").
A thorough financial analysis of Borghese's cardinalate by Reinhard Volcker (based on a series of extant account books) examines the strategies Borghese used to build up wealth during his uncle's pontificate and non-ecclesiastical assets before his uncle's death, which Volcker considers to be exemplary of Baroque papal families.
One special difficulty in editing the Periphyseon is that the earliest manuscripts preserve only the first three books whereas the extant manuscripts for Books Four and Five date from the twelfth century.
In its extant form, the book is a Jewish work, probably of the late 2nd century ad, with Christian interpolations.
Gutenberg Bible, also called Forty-two-line Bible, or Mazarin Bible, the first complete book extant in the West and the earliest printed from movable type, so called after its printer, Johannes Gutenberg, who completed it about 1455 working at Mainz, Ger.
