In a manuscript written between 1456 and 1461, an unknown mathematician recorded the earliest reference to a fifth perfect number, with 33, 550, 336 being correctly identified for the first time.

A copy of the second Medicean manuscript of Annals, wikisource: The_Annals_ ( Tacitus )/ Book_15 # 44 | Book 15, chapter 44, the page with the reference to Christians

In 1387 we first find documentary reference to him as professor of theology, and one manuscript speaks of him as " city preacher of Prague ".

Unfortunately, we cannot know whether the plays of the Towneley manuscript are actually the plays performed at Wakefield but a reference in the Second Shepherds ' Play to Horbery Shrogys ( line 454 ) is strongly suggestive.

The full manuscript title is Atlakviða hin grœnlenzka, that is, The Greenland Lay of Atli, but editors and translators generally omit the Greenland reference as a probable error from confusion with the following poem.

Kane then decided to mail or deliver in person a copy of portions of his manuscript to reference librarians across the United States.

This manuscript, held at the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, provides an authentic reference for the size and shape of typical English galleons built during this period.

" This would make the manuscript " a prelude to the concluding paragraph " of the poem in which " there is no reference to the sea or tides ".

I used this manuscript as my primary reference for my thesis, which I submitted and was passed in 1976.

The Chronography of 354 illuminated manuscript compiled in Rome includes an early reference to the celebration of a Nativity feast.

A note written by one ' Iohan but ' (' John But ') in a fourteenth-century manuscript of the poem ( Rawlinson 137 ) makes direct reference to the death of its author: whan this werke was wrouyt, ere Wille myte aspie / Deth delt him a dent and drof him to the erthe / And is closed vnder clom (' once this work was made, before Will was aware / Death struck him a blow and knocked him to the ground / And now he is buried under the soil ').

The earliest reference to a treadwheel ( magna rota ) reappears in archival literature in France about 1225, followed by an illuminated depiction in a manuscript of probably also French origin dating to 1240.

The reference is Ghonyat-al-Monyah an aged old manuscript translated and published by the Late Prof. Shahab Sarmadi of AMU Aligarh India.

One such reference can be found in the part of the manuscript known as The Wonders of the East, in which they are called " healfhundingas " or " half-dogs.

Another reference to a north-bound land of women is from an Icelandic manuscript from the 14th century that describes a kuenna land (" Woman Land ") " north of India " and " near ... Albania " that would only have women with both reproduction organs.

The manuscript had originally been titled " A Moment's Ornament ", a reference to Wordsworth's poem ' She was a Phantom of Delight.

In 1966 he had completed a manuscript of a reference book on statistics about elections since 1918, which was intended to be published in two volumes of 700 pages each to be part-funded by the Institute of Electoral Research ; the calling of a general election annoyed him because he would have to add the statistics from it to the book.

The combination of the two libraries in one building resulted in an accessible library where users have direct access to the academic collection and reference works on the shelves while the national and manuscript collections are available for on-site consultation in a separate reading hall.

Part of the collection of reference works is available in the reading hall of the national and manuscript collections.

) appended to the bottom of the manuscript, connected to the remainder by an oblique reference to crucifixion.

Earliest reference to a treadwheel in archival literature in France about 1225, followed by an illuminated depiction in a manuscript of probably also French origin dating to 1240.

It is believed that the papyrus is an incomplete copy of an older reference manuscript from the Old Kingdom, evidenced by archaic grammar, terminology, form and commentary.

( In earlier reference books the opera is referred to as Montezuma, but since the reappearance of the original manuscript this has been corrected to Motezuma.

It has therefore been suggested also that the picture is a coded reference to the attainments of Vincenzo Giustiniani: his Genoese family ruled Chios ( until the island's capture by the Turks ) in 1622, hence the coronet ; the cultivated Marchese also wrote about music and painting ( pen, manuscript and musical instruments ), was constructing an imposing new palazzo ( geometrical instruments ), studied astronomy ( astral sphere ), and was praised for his military prowess ( armour ).

Purportedly, Titor had been sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he said was needed to " debug " various legacy computer programs in 2036 ; a reference to the UNIX 2038 problem.

Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ( apolysis ), " redeem ", with ( apolousis ), " purification ", and with ( aploun ), " simple ", in particular in reference to the Thessalian form of the name,, and finally with ( aeiballon ), " ever-shooting ".

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

Roman military tribunes ( tribuni militum ), senior officers in Roman legions, wore a similar purple band so the reference may be to a family background of military leadership.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years ( especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy ), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite, period.

The reference model given by the ITU-T and ATM Forum for UPC and NPC is the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm ( GCRA ), which is a version of the leaky bucket algorithm.

Because this is a change to the observer's frame of reference ( i. e. the Earth itself ), it would therefore affect all stars equally.

The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals ( pashu-ahimsa ), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda ( KapS 31. 11 ), which may have been written in about the 8th century BCE.

There are six requirements for determining this: authority and attitude ( in reference to who declares the war ), intention and condition ( in reference to the soldiers ), merit ( of the enemy ) and just cause.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

* Belah ( meaning swallow ), in reference to Joseph disappearing ( being swallowed up )

* Becher ( meaning first born ), in reference to Joseph being the first child of Rachel

* Ashbel ( meaning capture ), in reference to Joseph having suffered captivity

* Gera ( meaning grain ), in reference to Joseph living in a foreign land ( Egypt )

* Naaman ( meaning grace ), in reference to Joseph having graceful speech

* Ehi ( meaning my brother ), in reference to Joseph being Benjamin's only full-brother ( as opposed to half-brothers )