Sentences with phrase «oldest manuscripts on»

Based on the writings and watercolors of 16th - century Dutch beachcomber and autodidact Adriaen Coenen, it reproduces, with lively commentary, what are probably the world's oldest manuscripts on European whales and marine animals.

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A little later, packing up his manuscripts, Ford happened to see «the page and the very commended phrase «old - eyed», and to notice that somehow in the rounds of fatigued retyping that used to precede a writer's final sign - off on a book in the days before word processors, the original and rather dully hybridised «cold - eyed» had somehow lost its «c» and become «old - eyed», only nobody'd noticed since they both made a kind of sense.»

This book is now published only after two of my colleagues, Professor Julius A. Bewer and Professor James E. Frame, one an authority on the Old Testament and the other on the New, have read the manuscript with painstaking care.

It draws on the discovery of many older manuscripts, some of them, as in the case of the Isaiah scroll found at Qumran, a thousand years earlier than the texts used to translate the KJV.

The Nash Papyrus - one of the oldest known manuscripts containing text from the Hebrew Bible - has become one of the latest treasures of humanity to join Isaac Newton's notebooks, the Nuremberg Chronicle and other rare texts as part of the Cambridge Digital Library, the university said on Wednesday.

The basic ideas on the human being, as Marx expressed them in the Manuscripts, and the ideas of the older Marx as expressed in Capital, are not contradictory.

Noll is puzzled: how can Olbricht include as primitive the impulse of New Englanders to collect European books, to write 6,000 pages of manuscript as Cotton Mather did, to study German as Moses Stuart did, or to undertake perilous voyages to the Old World to hear complex lectures on early Christianity?

His team has prepared 13 manuscripts based on discoveries made largely by students, some as young as 8 years old.

The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), H.R. 5037, builds on NIH's 2 - year - old requirement that grantees submit their peer - reviewed manuscripts to the free PubMed Central database for posting within 12 months after publication in a journal.

This means that the manuscript predates a 9th century inscription of zero on the wall of a temple in Gwalior, India, which was previously considered to be the oldest recorded example of a zero.

OXFORD, U.K. — Behind locked doors in one of the oldest libraries in Europe, two dozen scholars mill around a conference table where rare medieval manuscripts perch on lecterns, illuminated by natural light streaming in from floor - to - ceiling windows.

Hostiles Stars: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Q'orianka Kilcher, Scott Wilson, Peter Mullan, Adam Beach and Jesse Plemons Director: Scott Cooper Scriptwriter: Scott Cooper based on the manuscript by Donald E. Stewart Composer: Max Richter Cinematography: Masanobu Takayanagi Entertainment Studios Rating: R for violence and themed material Running Length: 133 minutes The Old American West still thrives in film country.

There's really not much to the plot other than for the protagonists to be chased around by the monster horde, while Stine seeks to write an all - new novel in the manner he wrote his old one (in manuscript form on a Smith - Corona typewriter that may have magic powers) with all of the characters he ever created on the hope that he can capture lightning in a bottle (or, in this case, a book) again.

In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»

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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Feb. 2011; Viking Books): A novel about an ages - old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious alchemical manuscript that draws them together — this book provides a dose of the paranormal for the adult crowd and was one of the hottest titles on offer at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair.

They have hundreds of old books and ancient manuscripts on display.

St. Catherine's Monastery is located on Mount Sinai in Egypt and it currently houses the oldest continually operating library in the world, containing ancient and medieval manuscripts second only to those held by the Vatican Library.

It is true that Dr. Lecter created the vacancy at the Palazzo Capponi by removing the former curator — a simple process requiring a few seconds» work on the old man and a modest outlay for two bags of cement — but once the way was clear he won the job fairly, demonstrating to the Belle Arti Committee an extraordinary linguistic capability, sight - translating medieval Italian and Latin from the densest Gothic black - letter manuscripts.

At rejection 15, she was feeling less giddy; at 40, she felt that the past year and one - half of rejections was getting old — she began to lie to her friends about what she did on the weekends... as she continued to tweak her manuscript.

In the «good old days» book publishers had editors on staff that could mold and shape a manuscript into a publishable state.

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In the bad old days very few authors got an agent and got published on their first or even second manuscript.

Besides, reading lontar (an old manuscript which is written on the leave of Palmyra palm) regularly as his habit also enriched his knowledge.

This building is walled in and has displays of Buddha statues, old ceramics and glassware and traditional Thai books written on palm leaf manuscripts.

In the old days, an author whose book was accepted for publication could count on a team of professionals, employed by the publisher, whose jobs were to polish a manuscript into a slick, shelf - ready product.

Kettle's Yard at The Old Bakery, 78 Akeman Street, Arbury, Cambridge, 27 — 29 November 2015 Variations on a Weekend Theme takes its title from an unpublished manuscript by Kettle's Yard founder Jim Ede.

Alongside the ninety - five - year old volume, which Jung worked on from 1914 - 1930, the Hammer Museum will present a number of oil, chalk, and tempera paintings and preparatory sketches related to the Red Book, and other original manuscripts, including the Black Books, which contain ideas and fantasies leading up to the Red Book.

It is now the oldest and longest Egyptian manuscript on record.

In the classic 1949 Ealing comedy Passport to Pimlico, a small part of London (Pimlico) declares itself independent from the rest of the UK on the basis that the residents discover an old manuscript that reveals that where they live is actually part of the Duchy of Burgundy.

Beginning in 1987, he worked on several manuscripts until, in 2002, he published Blue Road to Atlantis - a novel about making courageous choices in life as told from the perspective of of «Old Fish» - a huge marlin who is on a journey of self - discovery.