It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

On one hand, there are transmitted versions and commentaries that date back two millennia ; on the other, there are ancient bamboo, silk, and paper manuscripts that archeologists discovered in the last century.

* On the comparative antiquity of the Sinaitic and Vatican manuscripts of the Greek Bible .. ( 1872 )

On noting the large number of surviving ancient manuscripts, Bruce Metzger sums up the view on the issue by saying " The more often you have copies that agree with each other, especially if they emerge from different geographical areas, the more you can cross-check them to figure out what the original document was like.

On War is actually an unfinished work ; Clausewitz had set about revising his accumulated manuscripts in 1827, but did not live to finish the task.

On his journey to China, he spent four years in Palembang translating Buddhist texts and writing two manuscripts.

On his death, Bentham left manuscripts amounting to an estimated 30, 000, 000 words, which are now largely held by UCL's Special Collections ( c. 60, 000 manuscript folios ), and the British Library ( c. 15, 000 folios ).

On 7 March 1949, a fire spread from the library roof ; over 300 printed books and the manuscripts on exhibition were completely destroyed, and over 3, 000 books needed repair, though the main structure suffered little damage and restoration took less than a year.

On the other hand, Christopher Baswell attempts to interpret the Aeneid commentary through the Peterhouse, seeing this as an important link between manuscripts of the commentary and the Silvestris commentary.

On April 14, the Iraq National Library and National Archives were burned down, destroying thousands of manuscripts from civilizations dating back as far as 7, 000 years.

On May 7, 2003, U. S. officials announced that nearly 40, 000 manuscripts and 700 artifacts belonging to the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad were recovered by U. S. Customs agents working with museum experts in Iraq.

Two discoveries of ancient manuscripts made duririg his stay in London, the one containing a shorter text of the Epistles of St Ignatius, and the other an unknown work On All the Heresies, by Bishop Hippolytus, had already led him to write his Hippolytus and his Age: Doctrine and Practice of Rome under Commodus and Severus ( 1852 ).

On his return to France he obtained an appointment in the department of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Impériale.

On the other hand, the Sorbonne rejected Gaffarel's work and ridiculed him ; however, he gained the protection of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu, who made him his librarian and sent him off firsto to Italy, then to Greece and Asia to retrieve rare books ( reportedly including manuscripts by Pico della Mirandola ).

The most relevant of these to Agamben's own later work were Benjamin's manuscripts for his theses On the Concept of History.

On opening in 1900, the library had 70, 000 books and fewer than 100 manuscripts and by 2012, more than 250, 000 printed volumes and over one million manuscripts and archival items.

In the earliest printed editions, it was most usually given the overall title De re coquinaria (" On the Subject of Cooking ") and attributed to an otherwise unknown Caelius Apicius, an invention based on the fact that one of the two manuscripts is headed with the words " API CAE ".

On the one hand are the elaborate and intricately decorated initials one comes to expect in insular manuscripts of this period.

On one occasion, Magtymguly's village was raided ( possibly by another Turkmen tribe, though it is unclear ), and his possessions, including manuscripts of his poetry, were carried away on a camel.

On the contrary, they appear to have edited it to suit their own requirements, so that the wording of the manuscripts and the printed version often reflects early versions of the Spanish rite.

On account of their importance they were made the text of canonical instruction at the University of Bologna and, like the " Decretum " of Gratian, were glossed ( notes bearing on the explanation and interpretation of the text were added to the manuscripts ).

In 1893 Brennan's article " On the Manuscripts of Aeschylus " appeared in the Journal of Philology, Brennan began forming a theory about the descent of Aeschylus ' extant manuscripts in 1888.

On 16 September 1817 Hanka claimed that he had discovered some manuscripts of 13th-and 14th-century Bohemian poems in the church tower of the town of Königinhof an der Elbe ( Dvůr Králové nad Labem, both meaning Queen's Court at the Elbe in English ) and later some more at Castle Grünberg ( Zelená hora, Green mountain ) near Nepomuk.

On the street outside, Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world, such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in Florence, and prophetically he issues his curse: `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter ''.

On the other hand, we cannot regard artistic invention as pure, uncaused, and unrelated to the times in which it occurs.

On the eve of the First World War a growing tension and unease with the social order, already seen in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the agitation of " radical " parties, also manifested itself in artistic works in every medium which radically simplified or rejected previous practice.

On 24 November, Eisenstein signed a contract with the Trust " upon the basis of his desire to be free to direct the making of a picture according to his own ideas of what a Mexican picture should be, and in full faith in Eisenstein's artistic integrity.

At 17 years old, in his journal Sirius, she published her first poem which could be translated as On his hand are many shiny rings, ( 1907 ) signing it ‘ Anna G .’ She soon became known in St Petersburg's artistic circles, regularly giving public readings.

On November 4, 2011, Ricky Martin was granted Spanish citizenship for his artistic merits and for his grandmother being Iberian born.

The artistic unity of his work suffered severely from the frequent and lengthy digressions, of which the most important was On the Athenian Demagogues in the 10th book of the Philippica, containing a bitter attack on many of the chief Athenian statesmen, and generally recognized as having been freely used by Plutarch in several of the Lives.

On the day of Pascin ’ s funeral, June 7, 1930, thousands of acquaintances from the artistic community along with dozens of waiters and bartenders from the restaurants and saloons Pascin had frequented, all dressed in black, walked behind his coffin the three miles from his studio at 36 boulevard de Clichy to the Cimetière de Saint-Ouen.

Her artistic growth, and the strengthening of its public image follows of equal footstep, also in her solo career: if the first album " Simply Deep " made to shine through a sensuality countersigned by delicate sonority and tapes rich in winking looks, beginning from the second album " Ms. Kelly " ( and more with " Here I Am "), her artist identity consolidates her, and sex appeal becomes explicit and sometimes exhibited ( as for instance in the music videos of Ghetto, Comeback, Motivation and Lay It On Me ).

On his return to Verona, he built a museum, which he bequeathed, together with his valuable archaeological and artistic collection, to his native city.

On the occasion of a lunch on the Führer's birthday in 1943, the people around the Führer turned the conversation to the Reichstag building and its artistic value.

On April 15, 1935 the Roerich Pact was signed by the United States and Latin American nations, agreeing that " historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions " should be protected both in times of peace and war, and identified by their flying a distinctive flag, the Banner of Peace, bearing the Pax Cultura emblem.

On the Kercopian Literary Criticism in the Slovenian Literary Field ), written with a rare combination of fine irony and piercing analytical style, on drastically unrefexive criticism in Slovenian literature she has shown how important it is for a critic to be disposable and open to the artistic work and at the same time able to produce analytical distances in relation to the work read and evaluated, and in the next step to compound both experiences into a certain perspective, which can come out as his / her own distinctive approach and a singular way of seeing things and works of art.

On the other hand, Bulgaria's post-transition political, business, military, academic and artistic elites, as well as Bulgaria's large and active organised crime underworld, comprised almost entirely the scions of Communist eminenti who rose to prominence during Zhivkov's long rule.

On the other hand, the Theban kings, physically isolated from Memphis, had no access to these Memphite artworks and thus, were able to craft new artistic styles that reflected the creativity of the artists who were no longer controlled by the state.

On the one hand " art glass " is not quite of the size, uniqueness and scope to be considered as " art "-unlike glass art-but on the other, was designed or has come to be appreciated more for its decorative excellence, artistic merit or design distinctiveness than for any possible or originally intended use.

On June 11, 2007, Shore was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from York University in Toronto for " his sweeping artistic vision ".

On release, Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone magazine deemed All Things Must Pass " both an intensely personal statement and a grandiose gesture, a triumph over artistic modesty " and referenced the three-record set as an " extravaganza of piety and sacrifice and joy, whose sheer magnitude and ambition may dub it the War and Peace of rock and roll ".

On October 2004 the organization changed its codes and statutes to develop an attitude of service, leadership, integrity, innovation, and cultural and artistic expression.

On addition, the postmodern nature of contemporary art leaves a lot of space for individualism within the art scene ; for instance, postmodern art often takes inspiration from past artistic movements, such as Gothic or Baroque art, and both juxtaposes and recycles styles from these past periods in a different context.

On 13 August 1993, the Italian parliament unanimously approved the Special Law N. 319 " Regulations in support of the Rossini Opera Festival ", which recognizes the Pesaro Festival's achievements in the reviving of Rossini's operas as entitled to be included among the state-supervised works of restoration of the national artistic heritage.

On an artistic color wheel, complementary colors are placed opposite one another.

On the grueling two-year voyage — as he struggled with tiredness and bowel diseases — he wrote Martin Eden, filling its pages with his frustrations, adolescent gangfights and struggles for artistic recognition.

On May 3, 2008, the Governor General of Canada presented Levy with the Governor General ’ s Performing Arts Awards ( GGPAA ), a lifetime achievement award considered Canada's " most prestigious artistic honour ".< ref > General's Performing Arts Award site biography > In 2010, Levy was awarded the ACTRA Award by the union representing Canada's actors.