A well decorated manuscript of the Quran, made during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

Image: Kufic Quran 7th Cent. jpg | Kufic script from an early Qur ' an manuscript, 7th century.

The works of Aristotle that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission are collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum.

His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.

* Letters-a few letters in the original Latin and a portrait of him from a manuscript he copied.

His work has suffered terribly from the manuscript transmission.

The sole surviving manuscript from which almost every other is derived is a ninth-century Carolingian text, V, produced in Fulda from an insular exemplar.

Perhaps the manuscript by Shakespeare is a distinct work of art from the play by the troupe, which is also distinct from the performance of the play by this troupe on this night, and all three can be judged, but are to be judged by different standards.

" Bayad plays the oud to the lady ", Arabic language | Arabic manuscript for Qissat Bayad wa Reyad tale from late 12th century

A page from Beethoven's manuscript of the 9th Symphony

Both of these are important in regards to the uncertainty surrounding the Beowulf manuscript, as the works which it draws from or influences suggest time-frames of composition, geographic boundaries from which it could be composed, or range ( both spatial and temporal ) of influence ( i. e. when it was " popular " and where its " popularity " took it ).

Rebinding efforts, though saving the manuscript from much degeneration, have nonetheless covered up other letters of the poem, causing further loss.

The poem is known only from this single manuscript, which is estimated to date from close to AD 1000.

Kiernan has argued from an examination of the manuscript that it was the author's own working copy.

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball.

Babur crossing river Son ; folio from an illustrated manuscript of ‘ Babur-Namah ’, Mughal, Akbar Period, AD 1598

Baldr's death is portrayed in this illustration from an 18th century Iceland ic manuscript.

The Codex Zographensis is one of the oldest manuscript s in the Old Bulgarian language dated from the late 10th or early 11th century

A most notable example of anachronism is the Service of St. Cyril from Skopje ( Скопски миней ), a 13th-century Middle Bulgarian manuscript from northern Macedonia according to which St. Cyril preached with " Bulgarian " books among the Moravian Slavs.

According to a letter written by Johannes Marcus Marci in 1666, Rudolf is asserted to have acquired the manuscript sometime during his reign for 600 gold ducats.

Finally, it is from the reign of Charles that dates the first flowering of manuscript painting in Prague.

It was probably written during the reign of Edward I ( reigned 1272 – 1307 ), though the oldest surviving manuscript dates to 1338.

It was probably written during the reign of Edward I ( reigned 1272 – 1307 ), though the oldest surviving manuscript dates to 1338.

The Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer ( ancient southern Iraq ) from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of " official " kingship.

Only one manuscript of the history is known ; it was stolen by a Turkish soldier from the library at Buda during the reign of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and taken to Constantinople, where it was bought by a Christian and eventually reached the imperial library at Vienna.

Naunton's account of Queen Elizabeth's reign was still in manuscript when he died.

It is likely that it was composed only shortly after this date, albeit the earliest extant manuscript is from the reign of Amenemhat III, ca.

This manual supposedly disappeared until the Qianlong reign era when it was published under the name " Arhat exercising merit short strike illustrated manuscript " ().

He commissioned his court workshop to create an illustrated manuscript of the Hamzanama early in his reign ( he was by then about twenty ), which was conceived on such a usually large scale that it took fourteen years, from about 1562 to 1577, to complete.

Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus, an illuminated manuscript bible created at Wearmouth-Jarrow in the reign of Aldfrith.

Shortly after the start of his reign, Wihtred issued a code of laws — the Law of Wihtred — that has been preserved in a manuscript known as the Textus Roffensis.

Sheppard ’ s music for the new Protestant rite, which has suffered seriously from the loss of manuscript sources, was presumably composed during the reign of Edward VI which saw the publication of the Book of Common Prayer in 1549 and thus created a need for liturgical music for English texts.

* Most of this information is derived from the Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae and Life of Atticus of Cornelius Nepos, to which biographies of Cato and Atticus ( discovered in a manuscript of Cicero's letters ) were added by Peter Cornerus in the reign of Theodosius I.

The earliest miniature paintings like the 126 illustrations in the manuscript of Anwar-i-Suhayli ( c. 1550 – 1560 ) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the illustrations in Sindbad Namah in the India Office Library, London and Shirin and Khusrau in the Khudabaksh Library, Patna most probably belong to the period of reign of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah.

The 5 illustrations in a manuscript of the Diwan-i-Hafiz ( c. 1630 ) in the British Museum, London belonged to the period of reign of Abdullah Qutb Shah.

The scholiast to the Palatine manuscript of the Greek Anthology says he flourished in the reign of Seleucus VI Epiphanes ( 95 – 93 BCE ).

A new trend in manuscript illustration was set by a manuscript of the Nimatnama painted at Mandu, during the reign of Nasir Shah ( 1500 – 1510 ).

He edited and published editions of ancient literary remains including A Book of Scottish Pasquils, 1568-1715, a selection from the papers of the family of Boyd of Kilmarnock from the 16th and 17th centuries, state papers and miscellaneous correspondence of Thomas, Baron Melros ( from the 17th century ), letters and state papers during the reign of King James the Sixth, chiefly from the manuscript collections of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne, constitutions, charters etc.

He is given a reign of thirty two years in most manuscripts of Isidore of Seville's Historia Suevorum, but fourteen years in one manuscript.

The village was also once famous for a stately and magnificent priory, circa 1160, of the order of knights templar, founded by Lord Eustace Broomfleet de Vesci ( see The Order of the Temple at North Ferriby ), in the reign of King John of England, anno 1200, as appears from an ancient manuscript formerly in the possession of the late Luke Lillingston, Esq.