Sentence examples for surviving version from inspiring English sources
Why is the oldest surviving version of Catholicism's most important text condemned to life under a blanket, while the Book of Kells lives behind glass like the Pope in his Popemobile?
Bernard Shapero, a London-based book dealer, this year brought the earliest surviving version of the "Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth", a seven-panelled panorama made in 1602 by Matteo Ricci, the most famous Jesuit priest in China.
But, as Bloom has pointed out, there is equally no evidence for a male author; so we may, if we wish, say that this female courtier was responsible for the oldest and strongest surviving version of the Bible, the one labeled J because the author refers to God as Jahweh or Yahweh, as distinguished from the writer or redactor called E, for Elohim, his (or her) usual name for God.
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest surviving version of which dates from 1731.
The earliest surviving version of the legend is a Dutch print about an Amsterdam woman named Jacamijntjen Jacobs.
However, the oldest surviving version of Eric's legend is from about 1270, yet there is no information on either Henry or the crusade.
Today, surviving versions of this face, with its vast almond eyes, make you think of an alien - a bug-eyed, sexy alien.
All 62 surviving versions of his subject share a basic image: a kind of petting-zoo cluster of animals around a child in a parklike woodland.
Here again the Met offers spectacular examples, including illuminated pages from one of the most exquisite surviving versions of the Persian epic known as "Shahnama" or "Book of Kings," created in the courts of 15th-century Persia.
Subtitled A Hamlet Diffraction, From Melodious Lay takes passages from various surviving versions of Shakespeare's play as the basis for an orchestral poem with soprano and tenor soloists that explores the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia.
This amazing piece of scholarship is the work of Luciano Berriatúa of the Filmoteca Española, who has also assembled a documentary, included on the Kino disc, comparing sequences from the various surviving versions side by side.
