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.

A prefatory note gives a list of dictionaries from which the lexical portion was compiled, together with the names of their authors.

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.

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 ).

In a prefatory essay to readers, the translation committee said that " although some readers may regret this change, it should be pointed out that in the original languages neither the Old Testament nor the New makes any linguistic distinction between addressing a human being and addressing the Deity.

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.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

( 58 ), sometimes known as the Book of Columba ) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.

The sixth movement " Avalon ", another reference to the Arthurian legends, is the real slow movement ; its prefatory quotation is " We impose on one another, and it is but lost time to converse with you whose words are only Analytics ". The Finale " The New Jerusalem " is prefaced " Without Contraries is no progression "' alluding to the use by the composer of a structural device known as progressive tonality.

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 ".

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.

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.

: 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 ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Cato's De Agricultura: Latin text, English translation, information on the manuscripts, prefatory material.

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.

The later edition contained a prefatory essay, An Attempt at Self-Criticism, wherein Nietzsche commented on this earliest book.

The prefatory material to the Project Gutenburg text of the play acknowledges that " Current texts may usually be traced, directly or indirectly ," to the 1821 edition, but presents a far different text based on a manuscript in the author's hand.

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.

" A companion publication is planned, consisting of extended prefatory material, including a technical description of the source, information on the organs played by Louis Couperin, and suggestions for performance.

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.

The King republished it, with some new prefatory matter, on April 25, 1688.

' 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.

The inscription inside the archway is similar to the one at Tyne Cot, with the addition of a prefatory Latin phrase: " Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam-Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death ".

) The Basel edition is missing some of Constantine's prefatory material, but Mark Jordan notes that, while both Basel and Lyons editions are problematic, and have undergone some humanistic retouching, the Basel edition may be more reliable.