Sentence examples for manuscript copied from inspiring English sources

This was the opening double page of a Koran manuscript copied in 1667 by Ramazan, son of Ismail.

Studying a manuscript copied by one of Bach's underlings, Gardiner notes that the pen suddenly veers off the page, and concludes that the master had just boxed the dozy pupil's ears.

The fragment, found by Francesco D'Aiuto, a specialist in Greek manuscripts, is a faded but legible manuscript, copied by a Syrian monk in the ninth century A.D. It has not yet been possible to decipher it completely.

Thus the Winchester Troper, a 10th- or 11th-century manuscript copied for services for Winchester Cathedral, contains one of the largest body of early two-part settings of the responsories for Matins.

It excites the interest of Germanicists for its version of "Dukus Horant" (a poem from the Hildesage of the Kudrun [Gudrun] epic known from the Ambras Manuscript copied by Hans Ried, 1502/04 16), which antedates the earliest extant manuscript of the Hildesage by at least 130 years.

This group of remedy books, best known through the manuscript copied by the Yorkshire gentleman Robert Thornton, supplies a set of much shorter performative rituals for "travayling of child".

There is a pioneering Gutenberg Bible and a Constance Missal and such curiosities as manuscripts copied from printed books, several advertisements for books offered for sale before 1475.

Bibliography was manageable when books were still manuscripts copied out in the scriptoria of medieval European monasteries.

His response to temptation was incessant prayer and fasting; he learned Hebrew from a Jewish convert, studied Greek, had manuscripts copied for his library and his friends, and carried on a brisk correspondence.

The Book of Dede Korkut consists of two manuscripts copied in the 16th century, was not written earlier than the 15th century.

The poem is known from 21 manuscript copies, making it the best-attested Old English poem after Bede's Death Song (with 35 witnesses) and the best attested in the poetic corpus in manuscripts copied or owned in the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon period.