They argue that the oldest copies of this text family are likely to have been lost or destroyed over time with use, and therefore extant manuscripts cannot accurately date a text family.

Of this collection, called Minḥat Ḳenaot, there are several manuscript copies extant ; namely, at Oxford ( Neubauer, Cat.

The most widely known English language translation was made by Sir James Fergusson, formerly Keeper of the Records of Scotland, from text that he reconstructed using this extant copy and early copies of the original draft.

Gradually, without extant copies to which to refer, the Diatessaron developed a reputation for having been heretical.

As of 2008, there are between 28, 000 and 30, 000 distinct incunable editions known to be extant, while the number of surviving copies in Germany alone is estimated at around 125, 000.

The anonymously written 8th century hagiographic Miracula Nynie Episcopi ( Miracles of Bishop Ninian ) is discounted as a non-historical account, and copies are not widely extant.

# In the ninth and tenth centuries A. D. the manuscript copies of individual texts were made on which the extant manuscripts are based ;

The KGB seized one of only three extant copies of the text still on Soviet soil.

The standard Babylonian version, ša naqba īmeru, ‘‘ He who saw the deep ,’’ contains up to 3, 000 lines on eleven tablets and a prose meditation on the fate of man on the twelfth which was virtually a word-for-word translation of the Sumerian “ Bilgames and the Netherworld .” It is extant in 73 copies and was credited to a certain Sîn-lēqi-unninni and arranged upon an astronomical principle.

While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived ; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works ; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist.

Although Barthélémy's original is lost, the extant manuscripts include copies of his miniatures by Jean le Tavernier, Jean Colombe, and others.

The twelve UK episodes with extant master copies were released on VHS and DVD by HIT Entertainment in April 2004.

The redundancy inherent in these multiple ways of expressing the total years ( the 143 years is mentioned twice, and the 155 years minus 12 years once ) has guaranteed that all extant copies of Josephus / Menander that contain these passages give 155 years and 8 months between the start of Hiram ’ s reign and the foundation of Carthage.

Surviving copies of old or ancient works are called extant.

While the oldest extant copies of Jubilees can be assigned on the basis of the handwriting to about 100 BC, there is much evidence to suggest Jubilees was written prior to this date.

Many of the extant illustrated copies, with more than seventy or more paintings, are attributable to Tabriz, Shiraz, and Baghdad beginning in about the 1450s-60s and continuing to the end of the century.

In 1902, Lee edited the Oxford facsimile edition of the first folio of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies, followed in 1902 and 1904 by supplementary volumes giving details of extant copies, and in 1906 by a complete edition of Shakespeare's works.

All the known and extant copies of the Notitia Dignitatum, a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries and one of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, are derived, either directly or indirectly, from the Codex Spirensis which is known to have existed in the library of the cathedral chapter.

A public exhibition hall surrounds the glass stack tower, and displays among other things one of the 48 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible.

A review of the extant copies and related literature inferred that Matúška's original was most likely to have contained " let's stop them.

The several original copies extant vary considerably in detail and in the spellings of the spirits ' names.

There are several manuscript copies extant, and some of Naunton's letters are in the British Museum and in other collections.

Since the original writing of the scriptures, huge volumes of copies have been made of the originals, which are no longer extant, and copies have been made of those copies, resulting in several text types.

It is possible, of course, to work on extant or projected buildings where either architect or owner will explain their necessities so that the student may get `` the feel '' of real interior design demands.

An extant copy of this work, currently manuscript Cotton Vitellus E xii, has been identified as a copy owned by Ealdred.

His work chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from 96 to 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 – 378 are extant.

Besides the great trilogy, Clement's only other extant work is the treatise Salvation for the rich.

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

In the West, grammar emerged as a discipline in Hellenism from the 3rd c. BC forward with authors like Rhyanus and Aristarchus of Samothrace, the oldest extant work being the Art of Grammar (), attributed to Dionysius Thrax ( ca.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

'" However, the quoted words are not found in Hesiod's extant work.

This work was revisited by an imperial commission during the 11th century, and the result is our best extant representation of the foundational roots of traditional Chinese medicine.

A catalogue, originating with work by Boalch in the 1950s, of all extant historical instruments.

This could be reason enough to ensure work is done on both denominations, as preserving extant genetic diversity is of crucial Ecological importance.

It is the only extant classical work dealing with the early history of the Goths.

The extant work under the title " On the Sovereignty of God " does not correspond with Eusebius ' description of it, though Harnack regards it as still possibly Justin's, and at least of the 2nd century.

Duchesne and others have viewed the beginning of the Liber Pontificalis up until the biographies of Pope Felix III ( 483 – 492 ) as the work of a single author, who was a contemporary of Pope Anastasius II ( 496-498 ), relying on Catalogus Liberianus, which in turn draws from the papal catalogue of Hippolytus of Rome, and the Leonine Catalogue, which is no longer extant.

The most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana, a work of great merit, which was published at Milan in 1748 and " was regarded as the best introduction extant to the works of Euler.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the first.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle otherwise proves significant to study of the era, preserving a chronology of early English history, while the poem Cædmon's Hymn from the 7th century survives as the oldest extant work of literature in English.

Other Oxfordians say that de Vere's extant work is that of a young man and should be considered juvenilia.

Her style and her skill remains a mystery as none of her work is extant.

Drawing on the breadth of Midrashic, Talmudic and Aggadic literature ( including literature that is no longer extant ), as well as his knowledge of grammar, halakhah, and how things work, Rashi clarifies the " simple " meaning of the text so that a bright child of five could understand it.

Besides Adonis, other myths that appear in his work are those of Hyacinthus and the Cyclops ; to judge from references in the Epitaph on Bion, which frequently alludes to Bion's work, he also wrote a poem on Orpheus, to which some of the extant fragments may have belonged.

Very little of his work remains extant.