Notwithstanding its shortcomings, it was probably included in the Canon because the Early Church Fathers believed it was a reliable account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

The codex was created by several artists probably for Velislav the Canon ( d. 1367 ), the notary of John I of Bohemia and his son Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who were both based in Prague.

Most of the works with ground bass use some type of romanesca pattern, consisting of a line descending by fourth, rising by step, then descending again by fourth or fifth, rising by step, and so forth ( the Pachelbel Canon, probably written several decades after Picchi's death, is probably the most famous example of variations over a romanesca bass ).

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

The Council of Constantinople in 381 modified the situation somewhat by placing Constantinople second in honor, above Alexandria and Antioch, stating in Canon III, that "" the bishop of Constantinople ... shall have the prerogative of honor after the bishop of Rome ; because Constantinople is New Rome ".

Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ( 1824 – 1901 ), third son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Canon of Salisbury.

According to the third Canon of the second ecumenical council: " Because it is new Rome, the bishop of Constantinople is to enjoy the privileges of honor after the bishop of Rome.

These reforms are reflected in the second Code of Canon Law ( 1983 ).

The second change was particularly significant, as many had considered the text of the Canon to be practically untouchable.

Before the Second Vatican Council, the main stress was laid on this second aspect, as exemplified in canon 1258 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law:

Among the other changes he made and that were included in the 1962 Missal were: adding St. Joseph's name to the Roman Canon ; eliminating the second Confiteor before Communion ; suppressing 10 feasts, such as St. Peter's Chair in Rome ( or, more accurately, combining both feasts of St Peter's Chair into one, as they originally had been ); incorporating the abolition of 4 festal octaves and 9 vigils of feasts and other changes made by Pope Pius XII ; and modifying rubrics especially for Solemn High Masses.

Saints Felicitas and Perpetua ( mentioned in that order ) are two of seven women commemorated by name in the second part of the Canon of the Mass.

The first section, Discipline of Pure Reason, compares mathematical and logical methods of proof, and the second section, Canon of Pure Reason, distinguishes theoretical from practical reason.

A second branch, the Exe Valley line reached this station from the south, branching off the London to Penzance main line at Stoke Canon and following the line of the River Exe ; main line trains were occasionally diverted via Tiverton if there was engineering work or damage on the section north of Stoke Canon.

Richard Bruce Stopford ( 1774 – 1844 ), fourth son of the second Earl, was Canon of Windsor and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

William Henry Fremantle, second son of the first Baron, was Dean of Ripon and Canon of Canterbury.

Some classical works that achieved crossover status in the twentieth century include the Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, the Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki, and the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467 ( from its appearance in the 1967 film Elvira Madigan ).

The Sutta Pitaka (; or Suttanta Pitaka ; cf Sanskrit ) is the second of the three divisions of the Tipitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

* The lens of Canon's first or second camera, the " Hanza Canon.

Through the mid-2000s, Nikon's line of professional and enthusiast DSLRs and lenses including their back compatible AF-S lens line remained in second place behind Canon in SLR camera sales, and Canon had several years ' lead in producing professional DSLRs with light sensors as large as traditional 35 mm film frames.

Later special Canon models used similar mechanisms to achieve such speeds, while cameras with moving mirrors reached approximately 5 frames per second by the 1980s.

Today, the fastest professional models from Canon and Nikon achieve approximately 10 frames per second with a moving mirror.

Though the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, who lived in the second century of the Christian Era and also to Ancient Iranian Medicine, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine as a healing system was developed by Hakim Ibn Sina ( known as Avicenna in the west ) in his medical encyclopedia The Canon of Medicine.

Canon 1035 of the Code of Canon Law requires candidates for diaconal ordination to have received and have exercised for an appropriate time the ministries of lector and acolyte and prescribes that institution in the second of these ministries must precede by at least six months ordination as a deacon.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

In the early 5th century, this status was challenged by the bishops of Alexandria, but the Council of Chalcedon confirmed in Canon XXVIII:

The foundations for the first European universities were the glossators of the 11th century, which were schools of law that taught Canon law and Roman law.

Although testing medical interventions for efficacy has existed since the time of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine in the 11th century, it was only in the 20th century that this effort evolved to impact almost all fields of health care and policy.

The works of Galen and Avicenna, especially The Canon of Medicine which incorporated the teachings of both, were translated into Latin, and the Canon remained the most authoritative text on anatomy in European medical education until the 16th century.

Avicenna, considered among the most influential medical scholars in history, wrote The Canon of Medicine ( 1025 ) and The Book of Healing ( 1027 ), which remained standard textbooks in both Muslim and European universities until the 17th century.

The Jews of his day ascribed the Book of Malachi, the last book of prophecy, to Ezra but if Ezra's name was originally associated with the book, it would hardly have been dropped by the collectors of the prophetic Canon who lived only a century or two subsequent to Ezra's time.

In light of this questioning of the canon of Scripture by Protestants in the 16th century, the ( Roman Catholic ) Council of Trent reaffirmed the traditional western canon ( i. e., the canon accepted at the 4th-century Council of Rome and Council of Carthage ), thus making the Canon of Trent and the Vulgate Bible dogma in the Catholic Church.

It is stated in the 2nd century Muratorian Canon, and in the Liberian Catalogue, that he was the brother of Hermas, author of the text known as The Shepherd of Hermas.

The works of Galen and Avicenna, especially The Canon of Medicine which incorporated the teachings of both, were translated into Latin, and the Canon remained the most authoritative text on anatomy in European medical education until the 16th century.

* c. 1010 — Avicenna ( Abu Ali al Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Sina ) published The Canon of Medicine ( Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb ), in which he introduces clinical trials and clinical pharmacology, and which remains an authoritative text in European medical education up until the 17th century.

* c. 1030 – Avicenna The Canon of Medicine The Canon remains a standard textbook in Muslim and European universities until the 18th century.

Christiern Pedersen, a Canon of Lund, collaborated with Jodocus Badius Ascendius, a fellow enthusiast, to print the work of Saxo Grammaticus early in the sixteenth century.

" In 1994, in The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote of Finnegans Wake: " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante ," and in 1998 the Modern Library placed Finnegans Wake seventy-seventh amongst its list of " Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century.

* Concordia discordantium canonum, a collection of Canon law compiled and written in the 12th century

As late as the 19th century the instrument was still commonly associated with the Anglo-Irish, e. g. the Anglican clergyman Canon James Goodman ( 1828 – 1896 ) from Kerry, who interestingly had his uilleann pipes buried with him at Creagh ( Church of Ireland ) cemetery near Baltimore, County Cork.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE.

In the early 19th century, the reforming zeal of Provosts John Eveleigh and Edward Copleston gained Oriel the reputation of being the most brilliant college of the day and the centre of the " Oriel Noetics " — clerical liberals such as Richard Whately and Thomas Arnold were Fellows, and the during the 1830s, two intellectually eminent Fellows of Oriel, John Keble and The Blessed John Henry Newman, supported by Canon Pusey ( also an Oriel fellow initially, later at Christ Church ) and others, formed a group known as the Oxford Movement, alternatively as the Tractarians, or familiarly as the Puseyites.