She writes that only three fragmentary manuscripts are known to have survived into the modern period, two 3rd-century fragments ( P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus 3525 ) published in 1938 and 1983, and a longer 5th-century Coptic translation ( Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1 ) published in 1955.

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

The ancient versions of the Life of Adam and Eve are: the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, the Latin Life of Adam and Eve, the Slavonic Life of Adam and Eve, the Armenian Penitence of Adam, the Georgian Book of Adam, and one or two fragmentary Coptic versions.

These concluding chapters describing Peter's crucifixion are preserved separately as the " Martyrdom of Peter " in three Greek manuscripts and in Coptic ( fragmentary ), Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic, Armenian, and Slavonic versions.

The Unknown Berlin Gospel is a fragmentary Coptic text from an otherwise unknown gospel that has joined the New Testament apocrypha under the title Gospel of the Saviour.

Twenty-four manuscripts are in various fragmentary states of completion, including one version in Dutch ( manuscript ' T ').

A chance discovery in Moscow in 1777, recovered the two hymns that open the collection, the fragmentary To Dionysus and To Demeter ( complete save some lacunose lines ), in a single fifteenth century manuscript.

The manuscript is damaged, with the leaves being fragmentary and discoloured.

The only extant manuscript, in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie and kept at Brechin Castle, Scotland, is fragmentary ; what we have of the Historia is found on folios 1r-12r.

The poem must have been relatively popular and widespread because it exists in two manuscript versions and four fragmentary versions.

) as well as major translations of the New Testament ( e. g. KJV, NASB, NIV, RSV, NRSV ) retain this chapter in their editions as original, and just one fragmentary manuscript has been discovered that may end at John 20 without John 21.

The first, in two sections, is a fragmentary Gospel of Mary, for which this is the primary source manuscript.

Of Flaccus's work only a few fragments remain, of Festus's epitome only one damaged, fragmentary manuscript.

A fragmentary manuscript of the first half of the 14th century, containing Eckenlied, Virginal, Ortnit and Wolfdietrich, may be considered a predecessor or the earliest member of this group.

Another example is the title section of Armenian Papers: Poems 1954-1984: actually prose, this purports to be ( but evidently is not ) a translation from a fragmentary medieval manuscript.

Benoît's sources for the narrative were the Latin rescensions of Dictys and Dares and some material from the all-but-lost Latin recension that is represented now in part of a single, fragmentary manuscript, the Rawlinson Excidium Troie in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Among other well-known manuscripts in the Laurentian Library are the sixth-century Syriac Rabula Gospels ; the Codex Amiatinus, which contains the earliest surviving manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible ; the Squarcialupi Codex, an important early musical manuscript ; and the fragmentary Erinna papyrus containing poems of the friend of Sappho.

The Otho-Corpus Gospels is a badly damaged and fragmentary 8th century illuminated manuscript.

However, the discovery by musicologist Muska Mangano, Giazotto's last assistant, of a modern but independent manuscript transcription of the figured bass portion and six fragmentary bars of the first violin, " bearing in the top right-hand corner a stamp stating unequivocally the Dresden provenance of the original from which it was taken ," provides some support for Giazotto's account that Albinoni was his source.

A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trial of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death.

The symphony has four movements, although the fourth is incomplete and fragmentary.

The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

In the 3rd century BC Aristarchus of Samos was the first to suggest a heliocentric system, although only fragmentary descriptions of his idea survive.

The poem retained its popularity throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and is represented by an extremely high number of surviving manuscripts ( more than 400 ); the earliest of these are three fragmentary copies containing portions of Books 1-3, dating to the ninth century.

The tale of Ziusudra is known from a single fragmentary tablet written in Sumerian, datable by its script to the 17th century BC ( Old Babylonian Empire ), and published in 1914 by Arno Poebel.

the 1st century BC, fragmentary.

Another fragmentary text, dating from the 5th century is in the Vatican Library.

These manuscripts include the Cathach of St. Columba, the Ambrosiana Orosius, fragmentary Gospel in the Durham Dean and Chapter Library ( all from the early 7th century ), and the Book of Durrow ( from the second half of the 7th century ).

However, fragmentary building remains at Scarth are recorded as existing at the site in the mid-18th century.

On the left hand end of the right hand wall of the nave of the primitive basilica, rebuilt in 1933 on ancient remains, arches to end the middle of the nave of the actual church, built in the 13th century, are visible, along with the outside of the apse of the Chapel of the Relics ; whole and fragmentary collected sarcophagi ( mostly of 4th century date ) were found in excavations.

The fragmentary remains of the oracle temple, with some inscriptions dating from the 4th century BC, lie within the ruins of Aghurmi.

The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts date to about the 2nd century BCE ( fragmentary ), the oldest record of the complete text survives in a Greek translation called the Septuagint, dating to the 4th century CE ( Codex Sinaiticus ) and the oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic text upon which modern editions are based date to the 9th century CE.

The theory relies on passage 209. 1 in the fragmentary chronicle of John of Antioch, a 7th century monk.

The fragmentary oldest Life was recast in the 9th century by two monks of Reichenau, enlarged in 816 – 824 by the celebrated Wettinus, and about 833 – 884 by Walafrid Strabo, who also revised a book of the miracles of the saint.

is a fragmentary seventh century Insular Gospel Book, produced in Lindisfarne c. 650.

From the 12th century, eight ' old ' mormaer dynasties are known to be hereditary, continuous and no longer fragmentary, and also additionally the dynasties of Charraig.

In the outskirts of Mtskheta are the ruins of Armaztsikhe fortress ( 3rd century BC ), the Armaztsikhe acropolis ( dating to the late 1st millennium BC ), remains of a " Pompey's bridge " ( according to legends built by Roman legionnaires of Pompey the Great in 1st century BC ), the fragmentary remains of a royal palace ( 1st – 3rd century AD ), a nearby tomb of the 1st century AD, a small church of the 4th century, the Samtavro Monastery ( 11th century ), and the fortress of Bebris Tsikhe ( 14th century ).

He realized that there were horned dinosaurs by the next year, which saw his publication of the genus Ceratops from fragmentary remains, but he still believed B. alticornis to be a Pliocene mammal.

In the fragmentary theory, it was believed that stories about Jesus were recorded in several smaller documents and notebooks and combined by the evangelists to create the synoptic gospels.

It was long believed that it was closely related to some other Cretaceous taxa known from very fragmentary remains — Ambiortus, Apatornis, Iaceornis and Guildavis — but these seem to be closer to the ancestors of modern birds than to Ichthyornis dispar.