Sentence examples for holy manuscript from inspiring English sources

"The holy manuscript must be returned to Jerusalem," he pleaded, but he soon realized that there was no point to his efforts.

It lists all the individual craftsmen involved, from the tiler and metalworker to wood carver and cabinetmaker, each name lovingly illuminated on the page, as if from a holy manuscript.

He said practical help should be sent to curators and museum staff in Syria who were struggling to protect their antiquities, as well as to monks in Iraq hoping to digitise centuries-old holy manuscripts before they are seized by militant fighters.

The more than 200 items spanning more than six centuries include armor, scientific instruments, holy objects, textiles, manuscripts, carpets and decoupage.

The unfinished Paris manuscripts, a holy text in the nineteen-sixties, did not appear in English until 1959.

The first person said to have owned the manuscript was the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who reportedly was intrigued enough to buy it from its previous owner for six hundred ducats, around ninety thousand dollars in today's money.

Medieval psalters and missals usually contained calendars listing the various holy days, and 12th-century manuscripts containing tables on the movements of the heavenly bodies are still extant.

The first owner of the manuscript may have been Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who reigned from 1576 to 1611.

The publisher and editor Charles Ardai has tracked down a missing James M. Cain manuscript described as "the holy grail" of crime fiction, and will release it next fall.

Tests on a Quran parchment in the UK city of Birmingham have found it dates back almost to the time the Prophet Muhammad, making it one of the oldest known manuscripts of the Muslim holy book known to survive.

Most of Jien's works are not much bigger than illuminated manuscripts drawn by monks and holy men all over the globe, before the printing press was invented.