The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.

Carolingian minuscule was used to produce many of the manuscripts from monasteries until the eleventh century and most lower-case letters of today's European scripts derive from it.

The technology allowed for books and manuscripts – originally replicated by hand – to be printed at a much faster rate, thus spreading knowledge and helping to usher in the European Renaissance.

The manuscripts reflect an " international " European movement, with songs originating from Occitania, France, England, Scotland, Aragon, Castile and the Holy Roman Empire.

For example Trinity College's Wren Library has more than 200, 000 books printed before 1800, while the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, possesses one of the greatest early medieval European manuscript collections in the World, with over 600 manuscripts.

In 1839 he edited Sir John Mandeville's Travels ; in 1842 published an Account of the European manuscripts in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metrical romance of the 18th century ( Torrent of Portugal ).

# Until 1843 eight manuscripts, all derived from a common source ( G ), were known in Western European libraries: none of them contained chapters 1 to chapter 5. 7a.

This work may also have been referenced by Newton in its Latin version found within Lazarus Zetzner's, " Theatrum Chemicum ", a volume often associated with the Turba Philosophorum and other early European alchemical manuscripts.

Scriptorium, literally " a place for writing ", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the copying of manuscripts by monastic scribes.

Collection strengths include materials on the European Renaissance, genealogy, American Indians, early music, cartography, the history of printing, Chicago history, railroad archives, Luso-Brazilian history, and Midwestern authors ' manuscripts.

Lea discovered and acquired most of his materials from European sources, purchasing manuscripts and incunabula as well as other early printed books.

Together these cover antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art ; applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers ; coins and medals ; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books ; paintings, including masterpieces by Simone Martini, Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Domenico Veneziano, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, van Goyen, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th-century art ; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints.

Likewise, the various Old Latin translations reflect the various versions of the Septuagint circulating, with the African manuscripts ( such as the Codex Bobiensis ) preserving readings of the Western text-type, while readings in the European manuscripts are closer to the Byzantine text-type.

It also contains critical examinations of old manuscripts on European music.

The special collections, believed to be among the largest in the United Kingdom, include medieval illuminated manuscripts and examples of early European printing, including a Gutenberg Bible, the second largest collection of printing by William Caxton, and the most extensive collection of the editions of the Aldine Press of Venice.

The library's collections include exquisite medieval illuminated manuscripts, examples of early European printing including a fine paper copy of the Gutenberg Bible and books printed by William Caxton, and personal papers of distinguished historical figures including Elizabeth Gaskell, John Dalton and John Wesley.

The book was translated into many European languages within Marco Polo's lifetime, but the original manuscripts are now lost.

Collations of these manuscripts can be daunting, because a plenary manuscript in Arabic or Ethiopic / Ge ' ez is typically about 400 pages long, and in a translation into any modern European language, such a manuscript will come to about 800 pages.

Its fame crossed borders, as proved by the Salernitan manuscripts kept in many European libraries, and by historical witnesses.

A further 19 less definitive manuscripts by Trotula can be found in European libraries today.

The historical European martial arts community, interested in studying and reviving the old methods of armed combat trough the examination of original European manuscripts, finds its beginnings during this time period.

Early European printed books often left spaces for initials, rubrics and other elements to be added by hand, just as they had been in manuscripts, and a few early printed books had elaborate borders and miniatures added.

Radiocarbon dating of subfossil or fossil European ( Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom ) coastal remains confirms this, with whaling the possible cause.

* New dating of the European Ice Age

This event, despite enjoying a long and well-established tradition in the European futsal community, dating back to 1984, was never recognized as official by UEFA.

The most common dating of the Protestant Reformation begins in 1517, when Luther published The Ninety-Five Theses, and concludes in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia that ended years of European religious wars.

This animal's sediment deposits are found in European soil dating back to between 15 – 30 million years ago.

Most of Albania's telephones were obsolete, low-quality East European models, some dating from the 1940s ; workers at a Tirana factory assembled a small number of telephones from Italian parts.

Recent fossil records, according to the British Ornithological Union, show Cygnus olor is among the oldest bird species still extant and it has been upgraded to " native " status in several European countries, since this bird has been found in fossil and bog specimens dating back thousands of years.

The area has a European history dating back to the 1830s when settlers moved into the area and cleared the valleys for farming.

Some of the oldest surviving European ship models have been those of early craft such as galleys, galleons, and possibly carracks, dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries and found occasionally mounted in churches, where they were used in ceremonies to bless ships and those who sailed in them, or as votive offerings for successful voyages or surviving peril at sea, a practice which remained common in Catholic countries until the 19th century.

Prehistoric settlements best known for the eneolithic necropolis ( mid-5th millennium BCE radiocarbon dating ), a key archaeological site in world prehistory, eponymous of old European Varna culture and internationally considered the world's oldest large find of gold artifacts, existed within modern city limits.

The collection of textiles consists of over 53, 000 examples, mainly western European though all populated continents are represented, dating from the 1st century AD to the present, this is the largest such collection in the world.

It contains, among other things, ducal kitchens dating back to the mid-15th century, and a substantial collection of European painting from Roman times through contemporary art.

Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen is another example of a European park, dating from 1843, which still exists.

In addition to the historic Anishinaabe and European settlement of the island, archeological discoveries at Sheguiandah have demonstrated Paleo-Indian and Archaic cultures dating from 10, 000 BCE to 2000 BCE.

Although watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings of paleolithic Europe, and has been used for manuscript illumination since at least Egyptian times but especially in the European Middle Ages, its continuous history as an art medium begins in the Renaissance.

Carbon-14 dating of the remaining central European regions shows that Corded Ware appeared after 2880 BC It spread to the Lüneburger Heide and then further to the North European Plain, Rhineland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the Baltic region and Russia to Moscow, where the culture met with the pastoralists considered indigenous to the steppes.

The European Connections case ended when the judge ruled against the plaintiff, finding the law constitutional regarding a dating company.

On March 26, 2007, U. S. District Judge Clarence Cooper dismissed with prejudice a suit for injunctive relief filed by European Connections, agreeing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and TJC that IMBRA is a constitutional exercise of Congressional authority to regulate for-profit dating websites and agencies where the primary focus is on introducing Americans to foreigners.

Britain was forced to lift its stringent import prohibitions dating from 1876, because for imports from within the European Community they constituted a barrier to free trade under the terms of the Treaty of Rome.

Little is known about the country's music history prior to European contact, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments.

The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries.

Ice skates have a history dating back thousands of years, originating in Scandinavia among other cold North European regions in 3000 BC.

These aircraft, dating from the mid / late 1950s to the early 1960s, were originally owned and operated by British European Airways ( BEA ), one of the two main predecessors of the present-day British Airways.