The existence of the records has never been proven ; the opening is generally considered to be a literary device.

Some literary and historical records indicate that solo pieces for koto existed centuries before sōkyoku, the music of the solo koto genre, was established.

The convergence of documentary evidence of the type used by academics for authorial attribution — title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians, and official records — sufficiently establishes Shakespeare's authorship for the overwhelming majority of Shakespeare scholars and literary historians, and no evidence links Oxford to Shakespeare's works.

The first literary evidence of the existence of carte da trionfi is a written statement in the court records in Ferrara, in 1442.

There are records of two tutors for the young duke during the late 1030s and early 1040s, but the extent of William's literary education is unclear.

The Mycenaeans were ultimately the first Greek-speaking people attested through historical sources, written records in the Linear B script, and through their literary echoes in the works of Homer, a few centuries later.

A few reviewers have noted that the daily handling of records and varied data may have had an influence on his literary style.

Scholarly controversies over earlier development aside, literary records from Rus ' testify to substantial divergence between Russian and Ruthenian / Rusyn forms of the Ukrainian language as early as the era of Rus '.

Fragments of the axones were still visible in Plutarch's time but today the only records we have of Solon's laws are fragmentary quotes and comments in literary sources such as those written by Plutarch himself.

Among the difficulties in the study of ethnic groups in China are the relatively long periods of time involved, together with the large volume of literary and historical records which have accompanied the history of China.

There is scant literary evidence for two more ship trackways by that name in antiquity, both located in Roman Egypt: The physician Oribasius ( c. 320 – 400 AD ) records two passages from his 1st century AD colleague Xenocrates, in which the latter casually refers to a diolkos close to the harbor of Alexandria which may have been located at the southern tip of the island of Pharos.

Although these vestiges imply a strong role in earlier times, Tethys plays virtually no part in recorded Greek literary texts, or historical records of cults.

He draws on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions of other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources.

Many such writers have left valuable historical or literary records: an incomplete list of such Anonymi is at Anonymus.

Velikovsky searched for common mention of events within literary records, and in the Ipuwer papyrus he believed he had found a contemporary Egyptian account of the Plagues of Egypt.

* Worlds in Collision ( 1950 ) discussed the literary and mythical records of the " Venus " and " Mars " catastrophes

Hu Shih, literary scholar and then Ambassador to the United States, wrote in the Introduction to Waley's 1942 abridgement, Monkey, that the people of Wu's hometown, attributed it early on to Wu, and kept records to that effect as early as 1625 ; thus, claimed Ambassador Hu, Journey to the West was one of the earliest Chinese novels for which the authorship is officially documented.

We know of at least one " keeper of the books " who was employed to oversee the thousands of tablets on Sumerian and Babylonian materials, including literary texts, history, omens, astronomical calculations, mathematical tables, grammatical and linguistic tables, and dictionaries, and commercial records and laws.

The literary circle at court included the philosopher and historian Michael Psellos, whose Chronographia records the history of Constantine's reign.

The book contains references to court records, newspaper reports and quotations from literary figures, including statements from devotees, residents of the Math, relatives of Amritanandamayi and an interview with Amritanandamayi herself.

Shakespearean scholars, beginning with Edmond Malone in 1790, have attempted to reconstruct the plays ' relative chronology by various means, primarily using external evidence ( references by contemporary commentators and in private documents, allusions in other plays, entries in the Stationers ' Register, and records of performance and publication ), and internal evidence ( allusions to contemporary events, composition and publication dates of sources used by Shakespeare, the development of his style and diction over time, and the plays ' context in the contemporary theatrical and literary milieu ).

The first written records of Friulan have been found in administrative acts of the 13th century, but these documents became more frequent in the following century, when literary works also emerged ( Frammenti letterari for example ).

( An inscription records that Physcon had bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome if he died childless, an act not mentioned by any literary source.

According to Francis Owens, Roman literary records describe a very large number of well-known Roman historical personalities as blond.

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

First paragraph of the Carmen Campidoctoris, the earliest literary treatment of El Cid's life, written by a Catalan partisan to celebrate El Cid's defeat of Berenguer Ramón.

Chrétien refers to his object not as " The Grail " but as " a grail " ( un graal ), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.

The earliest literary references to Arthur come from Welsh and Breton sources.

In ancient China, the earliest literary reference to magnetism lies in a 4th century BC book named after its author, The Master of Demon Valley ( 鬼谷子 ): " The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.

She also says that " the Persian affiliation of the Mysteries is acknowledged in the earliest literary references to them.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes, the primary topics of literary satire are politics, religion and sex.

His earliest twelve short stories, written between 1838 and 1840, purport to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell.

One of the earliest literary references to trams occurs on the second page of Henry James's novel The Europeans: </ br >

His earliest literary efforts were in the direction of fiction-' thrilling romances ,' composed for the delectation of his school-fellows.

* The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha " or " The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha ") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.

The earliest literary evidence portrays Zanni as a servant of Pantalone.

Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the 8th century BCE.

The first literary connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain had to wait for the ninth-century Life of Mary Magdalene attributed to Rabanus Maurus ( AD 766 – 856 ), Archbishop of Mainz ; however, the earliest authentic copy of the Maurus text is one housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective.

He published his earliest literary work in local newspapers.

However, one of the earliest " Canadian " writers virtually always included in Canadian literary anthologies is Thomas Chandler Haliburton ( 1796 – 1865 ), who died just two years before Canada's official birth.

Artwork based on Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla, one of the earliest influential works of vampire literature. Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.

The earliest Akkadian versions are dated to the early second millennium, most probably in the eighteenth or seventeenth century BC, when one or more authors drew upon used existing literary material to create a single epic.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Homer's brief description in the Iliad is the earliest surviving literary reference: " a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire ".

Kolmogorov was educated in his aunt's village school, and his earliest literary efforts and mathematical papers were printed in the school newspaper.