Sentence examples for largest manuscript from inspiring English sources

The largest manuscript is a 15,000-page, 12-volume novel, typed in different colored inks on legal-sized paper, that narrates the often gory battles depicted in Darger's paintings.

The chanson before 1500 is preserved mostly in large manuscript collections called chansonniers.

In Bamako, he joined forces with two other holders of large manuscript collections: Ismael Diadié Haidara of the Timbuktu Andalusian Library and Abdoulkadri Idrissa Maïga, the new director of the Ahmed Baba Institute.

"Some years ago, while doing research at one of our major universities on the personal papers of Edward Gibbon," he explains in his introduction, "I came across a large manuscript in the collection, contained in an unmarked box".

At the beginning of the 13th century, it was replaced by the choir book a large manuscript in which soprano and alto parts usually faced each other on the upper halves of two opposite pages, with the tenor and bass parts occupying the lower halves (an economical arrangement because the upper parts, which sang the texts, required more space than the slow-moving lower parts).

During his time in Turkey as a diplomat (1674 1681), Finch wrote a large manuscript Treatise of natural philosophy which remains unpublished.

The documents that implicate these three lawyers are like pages torn from a larger manuscript.

This judgement is in part due to the fact that the Origin of Species was not designed by Darwin as a separate book; rather, it was published as an Abstract, taken from a much larger manuscript entitled Natural Selection [ 5].

Just as significant, however, is the fact that his philosophical corpus is immense, comprising a bewildering array of letters, notes, essays, and larger manuscripts.

Depictions of the devil were everywhere in medieval times, but the early 13th-century Codex Gigas – the largest medieval manuscript in existence – stands out.

Scrivener in 1861 commented: "Codex Vaticanus 1209 is probably the oldest large vellum manuscript in existence, and is the glory of the great Vatican Library in Rome.