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It was first written in 1466 in the Škofja Loka manuscript.

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.

Between 1424 and 1433 he worked on the translation of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, which came to be widely circulated in manuscript form and was published at Rome in 1472 ( the first printed edition of the Lives ; the Greek text was printed only in 1533 ).

The Aleinu prayer first appeared in the manuscript of the Rosh Hashana liturgy by Rav.

MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.

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.

Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the manuscript in 1786 and published the results in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

The first occurrence of a single manuscript of the daily office was written by the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in 1099.

Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor, did not secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works which " Currer Bell " might wish to send.

The first page of the Beowulf manuscript

Elf-shot ( or elf-bolt or elf-arrow ) is a word found in Scotland and Northern England, first attested in a manuscript of about the last quarter of the 16th century.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

* Miguel de Cervantes claims that all chapters but the first in Don Quixote are translated from an Arabic manuscript by Cide Hamete Benengeli, parodying a plot device of chivalry books.

* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.

It is a Greek manuscript attributed to Solomon and likely written in either Babylonia or Egypt sometime in the first five centuries A. D., over a thousand years after Solomon's death.

This manuscript has the tune depart from that which is used today at several points, one as early as the first bar, but is otherwise clearly a strong relative of the contemporary anthem.

The main difference between the text in the surviving Spanish copy and that in the Italian manuscript is that in the Spanish copy chapters 121 to 200 are noted as being missing in the exemplar — although it appears that these chapters had still been present in the Spanish original when it was first examined by George Sale.

Subsequently the Stockholm manuscript was translated into Swedish and Latin by Johan Peringskiöld ( by order of Charles XI ) and published in 1697 at Stockholm under the title Heimskringla, which is the first known use of the name.

The name, associated with millet bread and the act of asking for something, was first written in 1466 in the Škofja Loka manuscript.

His first manuscript of Mysterium contained an extensive chapter reconciling heliocentrism with biblical passages that seemed to support geocentrism.

The Al-Fatiha | first sura in a Qur ' anic manuscript by Hattat Aziz Efendi.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

I'm sure you'd be the first to attest, Conan, that when it comes to the tough calls, NBC usually gets ' em right ," Costas said, alluding at the end to O ' Brien's involvement in the 2010 Tonight Show conflict.

Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.

The Gnome edition also issued the first Conan story written by an author other than Howard — the final volume published, which is by Björn Nyberg and revised by de Camp.

Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Conan Doyle's book The Coming of the Fairies, were sold at auction in London for £ 21, 620 in 1998.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the first Sherlock Holmes in Strand Magazine in 1891.

* Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes tale.

** Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

* Tales of Conan ( 1955 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-collection containing the first of de Camp's " posthumous collaborations " with Howard, marking the beginning of his successful promotion of Howard's " Conan the Barbarian " character

In 1997, archive footage of Burton was used in the first episode of the television series Conan.

Introduced as a minor character in a non-fantasy historical story by Robert E. Howard, " The Shadow of the Vulture ", Red Sonya of Rogatino would later inspire a fantasy heroine named Red Sonja, who first appeared in the comic book series Conan the Barbarian written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith.

As for parody, the first Sherlock Holmes spoofs appeared shortly after Conan Doyle published his first stories.

* Conan O ' Brien was seen running past the tower while en route from New York to Los Angeles on his first episode as host of The Tonight Show.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

: At first, in the earliest months of Prince Valiant, Foster ’ s Arthurian England might easily be confused with the Cimmeria of Conan the Barbarian: monsters abound.

In what Tom O ' Neil called a " jaw-dropper ", the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were the first since Late Show began in which the show was not nominated ; O ' Neil attributed the omission to the fact that The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien had received a nomination that year.

The series was Andy Richter's first starring role after leaving Late Night with Conan O ' Brien in 2000.

Soundgarden made their first television appearance since their reunion on Conan O ' Brien's second episode of Conan November 9, 2010 on TBS and toured North America in summer 2011.