Under the heading " Adam " the author of the lexicon ( which a prefatory note states to be " by Suidas ") gives a brief chronology of the world, ending with the death of the emperor John I Tzimiskes ( 975 ), and under Constantinople his successors Basil II ( 976-1025 ) and Constantine VIII ( 1025 – 1028 ) are mentioned.

The first printed editions by Crowley named the author as " Robert Langland " in a prefatory note.

Edited by Sanford Brown Meech, with prefatory note by Hope Emily Allen.

With prefatory note by S. Squire Sprigge.

His reason for writing the novel came as a result of a trip through Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon in the winter and spring of 1930, and is given in a prefatory note in the novel:

The best description of the play's style can be found in Strindberg's prefatory note:

The introduction of the most recent edition by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale offers both praise and criticism for Ludovici's edition, saying that, " Dr. Levy was probably quite right when in a prefatory note he called Ludovici ' the most gifted and conscientious of my collaborators ,' but unfortunately this does not mean that Ludovici's translations are roughly reliable .... Let us say that Ludovici was not a philosopher, and let it go at that.

It contains, amid much prefatory matter, a " note to the carping and scornefull Sicophant ," in which he attacks his foes with small courtesy and much alliteration.

I translate below part of the prefatory note that Paash ( 1950-1989 ), one of the leading poets of the Jujharu ( rebel ) era of Punjabi poetry ; and arguably one of the finest poets ( pro-people, should I say?

Yuri Andropov, who was the Chairman of the KGB in Firefox ( first published in 1975 ) retains this role, even though by the time the sequel was published, he had already become the General Secretary of the CPSU, as explained in a prefatory note inserted by the author.

A prefatory note to the U. T. S. A.

contained a prefatory note followed by 12 sections of proposed law.

In a prefatory note addressed to the book's child readers, Neill states that he and his family live in Flanders, New Jersey, which he describes as " on top of the Schooley Mountains and the Jenny Jump Mountains are really truly mountains right next to us.

The prefatory notice gives full information of the sources of Jodelle's biography, and La Mothe's criticism is reprinted in its entirety.

His most important work is Theatrum poetarum ( 1675 ), a list of the chief poets of all ages and countries, but principally of the English poets, with short critical notes and a prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry, which has usually been traced to Milton's hand.

These letters include everything from personal letters to official government correspondence ( mostly in English ), letters to fellow humanist scholars ( in Latin ), including several epistolary tracts, verse epistles, prefatory letters ( some fictional ) to several of More's own works, letters to his children and their tutors ( in Latin ), and the so-called " prison-letters " ( in English ) which he exchanged with his oldest daughter, Margaret Roper while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London awaiting execution.

: A Praise Gathering for Believers, " the first album from a Christian record company to achieve this honor ", which was certified gold by the RIAA, and nominated in 1974 for a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year, their arranger Ronn Huff added the prefatory words to " God Gave the Song " that are similar to those in " The Tune ".

In a prefatory letter Hesychius mentions that his lexicon is based on that of Diogenianus ( itself extracted from an earlier work by Pamphilus ), but that he has also used similar works by the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, Apion, Heliodorus, Amerias and others.

In 1858 he published a 3-volume edition of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces from our earlier poets, authoring a prefatory ' Memoir and Critical Dissertation ' entitled ' Life of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore ; with Remarks on Ballad Poetry.

Many psalters, particularly from the 12th century onwards, included a richly decorated " prefatory cycle "-a series of full-page illuminations preceding the Psalms, usually illustrating the Passion story, though some also featuring Old Testament narratives.

In prefatory remarks to his edition of the works, Otto von Irmer notes that Beethoven meant the six bagatelles to be played in order as a single work, as least insofar as this can be inferred from a marginal annotation Beethoven made in the manuscript: " Ciclus von Kleinigkeiten " ( cycle of little pieces ).

Every chapter of the Genesis Rabba is headed by the first verse of the passage to be explained, and is introduced, with few exceptions, by one or more prefatory remarks starting from a verse taken from another Biblical passage as text — generally from the Writings or Ketuvim.

This volume presents in admirable facsimile, with prefatory notices and indexes, the Latin inscriptions from the earliest times to the end of the Republic.

These words also serve to open a prefatory prayer within the text of the bull calling on the Lord to arise against the " foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard " and the destructive " wild boar from the forest.

Giovanni Battista Ramusio first includes Odoric's narrative in the second volume of the second edition ( 1574 ) ( Italian version ), in which are given two versions, differing curiously from one another, but without any prefatory matter or explanation.

* Canon 1 is prefatory ; it contains a brief confession of faith in the Trinity, and especially in the Word, the Son of God ; and it speaks of the expulsion of heretics from the Church.

The Gospel Book manuscript dating from the 9th century contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, along with prefatory material and canon tables – an interesting admixture of traditions.

Folio 25v from the Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment ( British Library, MS Cotton Otho C V ), prefatory material for Mark.

In the prefatory material to his first short story collection he insisted it was infinitely more difficult to paint a likeness of a dog or horse one had actually seen than to render a ghost or goblin one had never observed ( a quotation from Han Feizi ).

Shakespeare's native Avon and Stratford are referred to in two prefatory poems in the 1623 First Folio, one of which refers to Shakespeare as " Swan of Avon " and another to the author's " Stratford monument ".

As king of the Munster síde with Lén as his smith, Bodb Sída ar Femen (' of the Mound on Femen ') plays a role in an important prefatory tale to Táin Bó Cuailnge, for it is his swineherd who quarrels with that of the king of the Connacht síde ; the swineherds are later swallowed and reborn as the magical bulls Donn Cuailnge and Finnbennach, of which the former was the object of the great cattle-raid.

According to the prefatory letters, the work was composed at the urging of his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa, to whom Isidore, at the end of his life, sent his codex inemendatus (" unedited book "), which seems to have begun circulating before Braulio was able to revise it, and issue it, with a dedication to the late Visigothic King Sisebut.

Alexander M. Witherspoon, professor of English at Yale University, writes in a prefatory essay: Part II, which appeared in 1684, is much more than a mere sequel to or repetition of the earlier volume.

There is a prefatory cycle of illustrations which are also on purple dyed parchment.

In addition, prefatory matter including prefaces to Paul's Epistles ( most of which are by Pelagius ), the Canon Tables of Eusebius, and the Letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus are included.

This is supported by something Calvin himself says in his prefatory address to King Francis: " My intention was only to furnish a kind of rudiments, by which those who feel some interest in religion might be trained to true godliness.

A copy of a page of the prefatory material for Mark was made in 1725 for the Earl of Oxford, and used by Thomas Astle for his book The Origin and Progress of Writing, which was published in 1784.

Tallis ', and a reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Tallis and Byrd in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Thomas Tallis of the Chapel Royal.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

' are taken to refer to the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, though Thorpe usually signed prefatory matter only if the author was out of the country or dead.

But even then the text was probably not finally closed, for longer or shorter passages could always be added, the number of prefatory passages to a section be increased, and those existing be enlarged by accretion.

The prefatory material has Pope speaking in his own defense, although under a variety of other names ; for example, " A Letter to the Publisher Occasioned by the Present Edition of the Dunciad " is signed by William Cleland ( d. 1741 ), one of Pope's friends and father of John Cleland, but it was probably written by Pope himself.

This edition was collated ( 1890 ) with the British Museum copy of 1575 by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory matter, including an introduction dealing with the importance of Italian novella in Elizabethan drama.

These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart's 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.

The prefatory letter Baudelaire wrote to Arsene Houssaye, the editor of La Presse, was not necessarily intended to be included in the publication.

Though its subversive theme was apparent to most readers, the poem escaped censorship due to conflicts among the censors and, in the second edition, a prefatory homage to Tsar Nicholas I.