An example of a page from the Orkneyinga saga, as it appears in the 14th century Flatey Book.

The Flatey Book Annal wrote of the 1341 eruption that people saw large and small birds flying in the mountain's fire which were taken to be souls.

The Ættartolur, the genealogies appended to the Hversu Noregr byggdist in the Flatey Book introduce Halfdan the Old as the ruler of Ringiríki ( a territory including modern Ringerike and Valdres in Oppland ).

According to the Icelandic sagas (" Eirik the Red's Saga " and the " Saga of the Greenlanders "— chapters of the Hauksbók and the Flatey Book ), the Norse started to explore lands to the west of Greenland only a few years after the Greenland settlements were established.

The Flatey Book, (; lit.

The Flatey Book is the largest medieval Icelandic manuscript, comprising 225 written and illustrated vellum leaves.

) The Flatey Book and the Codex Regius were repatriated to Iceland in 1971 as Icelandic national treasures and are preserved and studied by the Árni Magnússon Institute.

* Text and English translation by Loptsson of Eireks þáttr rauða (' Tale of Eirík the Red ') and Grœnlendinga þáttir (' Tale of the Greenlanders ') from the Flatey Book.

Parallel but not quite identical accounts of Nór the eponym of Norway appear in Fundinn Noregr (' Norway Found '), hereafter called F, which begins the Orkneyinga saga, and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was Settled '), hereafter called B, both found in the Flatey Book.

In the Orkneyinga saga and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was settled ')— both found in the Flatey Book — Fornjót appears as an ancient ruler of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland.

In the account called Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited ') in the Flatey Book, Snær is son of Jökul ( Jǫkull ' icicle, ice, glacier ') son of Kári.

Hversu Noregr byggðist () is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages, which survives only in the Flatey Book.

It is preserved in two versions of which one ( HróFlat ) is found in Flatey Book ( GKS 1005 fol 344-348, ca 1387-1395 ) and the second one ( Hró AM 557 4 °) in the Arnamagnæan Codex ( AM 557 4 ° 41r-42v, ca 1420-1450 ) in Copenhagen.

In the version of Heimskringla which is found in the Flatey Book, it is inserted together with Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa in the description of Olaf Haraldsson's wooing of the Swedish princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter.

Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa ( The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion ) is a short story, a þáttr on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the Flatey Book ( GKS 1005 fol 342-344, ca 1387-1395 ).

Vǫlsa þáttr is a short story which is only extant in the Flatey Book, where it is found in a chapter of Óláfs saga helga.

One of them appears as Eymundar þáttr hrings in the Flatey Book and the other one is an introductory chapter in Yngvars saga víðförla.

According to the Norse sagas ( particularly the Jómsvíkinga saga, King Olaf Tryggvasson ’ s Saga, and stories found in the Flatey Book ), their stronghold Jomsborg was located on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, but the exact location is disputed by modern historians and archeologists.

The antipodes of the northernmost of these, Young Island, lie between Flatey and Grímsey Islands off the north central Icelandic coast, about 10 km from either.

Jon Finnsson, who resided on Flatey (' Flat Island ') in Breiðafjörður on the west coast of Iceland, was then the owner of the book which was already known as the Flateyjarbók.

The most important of these islands is Flatey.

The biggest is Flatey which name means < i > flat island </ i > and must be not confused with other islands of Iceland with the same name.

There is no ferry serving Flatey, however some houses are used as summer houses.

It also is the gateway to Flatey.

Known places within the area are Flatey and Látrabjarg.

Sörla þáttr is a short story in Flateyjarbok, a collection of tales about Norwegian kings written by two Christian priests in 15th century, owned by a family from Flatey island.

Recently, Ihsahn announced an Emperor Tablature Book based on their Scattered Ashes: A Decade of Emperial Wrath compilation album, containing thirteen Emperor tracks from their back catalogue.

Recently the word has gained another meaning thanks to the activity of Togakkai ( the Academy of Tondemo books ) which annually award Nihon Tondemo-bon Taisho ( Japan Tondemo Book Award ), which is a sort of combination of Razzie, Ig Nobel Prize and James Randi Foundation.

Recently, renewed interest in Foxe as a seminal figure in early modern studies created a demand for a new critical edition of the Actes and Monuments, Foxe's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition.

Discovered by scholar Nabia Abbott in 1948, it bears the title Kitab Hadith Alf Layla (" The Book of the Tale of the Thousand Nights ") and the first few lines of the book in which Dinazad asks Shirazad ( Scheherazade ) to tell him stories.

* Smedley, W. ( 2005 ) " A Newly Discovered Fragment of a Daily Account Book for Framlingham Castle, Suffolk ," Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, 41, pp. 51 – 5.

* Cymocles Discovered By Atis In The Bowre Of Blisse, Spencer's Fairie Queene, Book II, Chapter V ( 1848 )( Type: Pen, ink and wash Size: 8¼ × 12 inches ( 21 × 30. 5 cm ) Location: Public collection )

The Vatican Picture Book – A Picture Pilgrimage.

" He also says that the " Tulli Papyrus ", cited by von Däniken in one of his books, is likely cribbed from the Book of Ezekiel, and quoted Dr. Nolli ( through Dr. Walter Ramberg, Scientific Attache at the U. S. embassy in Rome ), then current Director of the Egyptian Section of the Vatican Museum, as " suspect that Tulli was taken in and that the papyrus is a fake.

Georgics Book III, Shepherd with Flocks, Vergil ( Vatican Library )

* Vatican Croatian Prayer Book

The Barberini Gospels is an illuminated Hiberno-Saxon manuscript Gospel Book ( Rome, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Barberini Lat.

There appear to have been at least three volumes of five books, five-and eight-part motets and three part canzonets ( or canzonettes, instrumentals performed as entrances or introductions ) ( 1592 ); Villanelle a 3 voci ( 1593 ); Misse ( 1593 ); Motetti ( 1594 ); Madrigale ( 1586 ); Book Three for Five Voices ( 1599 ); Vilanelle a 5 voci ( 1608 ); There are masses, motets, and psalms in manuscript at the Vatican, among them a Miserere for four and eight voices and a mass for eight, on Palestrina's madrigal Vestiva i colli.

Vatican Croatian Prayer Book

Vatican Croatian Prayer Book is the oldest Croatian vernacular prayer book and the finest example of early štokavian vernacular literary idiom.

A fragmentary palimpsest of the 91st book was discovered in the Vatican Library in 1772, containing about a thousand words, and several papyrus fragments of previously unknown material, much smaller, have been found in Egypt since 1900, most recently about 40 words from Book 11, unearthed in the 1980s.