Sentence examples for two manuscripts of from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, a scribe who had before him two manuscripts of a single work containing variant readings, and unable to decide between them, might incorporate both readings into his scroll and thus create a conflate text.

With a heavyish heart, I began to rewrite... Losing it: A brief history of missing manuscripts By Rob Sharp Double jeopardy The Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin believed having two manuscripts of his The Bildungsroman (or Novel of Education, 1936-38) would protect him from life's vicissitudes.

There is no record of what was burned; while most commentators assume that the Eighth Symphony was among the works destroyed, Kilpeläinen observes that there had been at least two manuscripts of the work the original and Voigt's copy as well as sketches and fragments of earlier versions.

Wimmer identified two manuscripts of first quality, the Codex Urbinas in the Vatican Library, which was not made known to Johann Gottlob Schneider, who with H. F. Link made the first modern critical edition, Leipzig 1818 1821, and the excerpts in the Codex Parisiensis in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

With Lachmann's two manuscripts of Lucretius, the ∼2,100 variants in ∼50,000 words of text correspond to a net accumulation of about one error every four lines in Lachmann's edition in the course of about five removes, or of roughly one error every 20 lines by each successive scribe.

Accordingly, the final set for data extraction and analyses consisted of 70 references, representing 68 studies (the two manuscripts of Chapman [ 16, 17] and the two of Spector [ 18, 19] are respectively discussed as a single study).

Djian said that the same was true of the several thousand manuscripts of the Kati Foundation in Timbuktu.

Most Old English poetry is preserved in four manuscripts of the late 10th and early 11th centuries.

There are, to begin with, the eighty thousand manuscripts of late-antique, medieval, Byzantine, and Renaissance provenance, in dozens of languages, from Aramaic to Old Church Slavonic.

The letters of Wilde and Clegg, along with some 50 handwritten pages, including nine manuscripts of Wilde's poems and the earliest surviving letter from Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, are contained in a red leatherbound volume that was recently given to the Morgan Library & Museum by Lucia Moreira Salles, a Brazilian philanthropist who had owned it for more than two decades.

A collection of essays from his popular Independent series Great Works will be published this year, and there are three manuscripts of completed books: one on Bad Art, one on the English graphic tradition, and The Donkey's Head, on 17th-century painting.