The edition of 1849 may be regarded as historically the most important, from the mass of new critical material it used ; that of 1859 is distinguished from Tischendorf's other editions by coming nearer to the received text ; in the eighth edition, the testimony of the Sinaitic manuscript received great ( probably too great ) weight.

* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.

With the support of his mentor Michael Maestlin, Kepler received permission from the Tübingen university senate to publish his manuscript, pending removal of the Bible exegesis and the addition of a simpler, more understandable description of the Copernican system as well as Kepler ’ s new ideas.

After Wright received the Story magazine prize in early 1938, he shelved his manuscript of Lawd Today and dismissed his literary agent, John Troustine.

There was little dissent from Prout's approach, and when Chrysander's scholarly edition was published in the same year, it was received respectfully as " a volume for the study " rather than a performing edition, being an edited reproduction of various of Handel's manuscript versions.

" Despite the fact that the manuscript was not published until 1656, the year before his death, it was well received by his near contemporaries.

Neckam also wrote Corrogationes Promethei, a scriptural commentary prefaced by a treatise on grammatical criticism ; a translation of Aesop into Latin elegiacs ( six fables from this version, as given in a Paris manuscript, are printed in Robert's Fables inedites ); commentaries, on portions of Aristotle and Ovid's Metamorphoses, which remain unprinted, on Martianus Capella, which has recently received an edition, and on other works.

Others were passed on through his only known Berlin pupil, Sarah Itzig Levy, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family in Berlin and great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn ; it was she who gave Mendelssohn the manuscript of the St. Matthew Passion, which she had received from Friedemann.

The editor's note at the beginning of the novel suggests Campbell's writings, the text of the novel itself, are a manuscript that Vonnegut received and is editing for public view.

Giazotto is famous for his publication of a work called Adagio in G minor, which he claimed to have transcribed from a manuscript fragment of an Albinoni sonata that he had received from the Saxon State Library.

In 1995 the former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot received an out of court settlement ( said to be " substantial ") from The Sunday Times after the newspaper alleged, in articles derived from claims in the original manuscript of Gordievsky's book Next Stop Execution ( 1995 ), that Foot was a KGB " agent of influence " with the codename ' Boot '.

Printing gradually displaced manuscript production and, by the time that the Guild received a royal charter of incorporation on 4 May 1557, it was in effect a Printers ' Guild.

He held that the manuscript he used gave the truest text, that all other texts were inaccurate, and that the epistles contained in the manuscript were the only genuine epistles of Ignatius that we possess, a view which received the support of Ferdinand Christian Baur, Bunsen, and many other eminent scholars, but which was opposed by Charles Wordsworth and by several German scholars, and is now generally abandoned.

While the manuscript was being put together, Akbar, the Mughal Emperor, received a report that the manuscript contained passages vilifying Islam so while traveling north he stopped enroute and asked to inspect it.

In her Mémoires, she records how she and her spouse received a mysterious German guest, who bought back from them each of the pearls of a collar given to her by Faure ( le collier présidentiel, as it became known in the press ) and who reclaimed a manuscript of the president's memoires which he had entrusted to Marguerite.

Readers ' editions generally lack the final dust jacket, formatting or binding of the finished product ; the text of an advance edition may also differ slightly from the market book, after comments are received from the reading group, or late errors are found in the manuscript.

The manuscript first received special attention by the learnèd in 1651 when Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of Skálholt, with the permission of King Frederick III of Denmark, requested all folk of Iceland who owned old manuscripts to turn them over to the Danish king, providing either the original or a copy, either as a gift or for a price.

Eusebius also records Origen's statement that he obtained these and others of Symmachus ' commentaries on the scriptures from a certain Juliana, who, he says, inherited them from Symmachus himself ( Historia Ecclesiae, VI: xvii ) Palladius of Galatia ( Historia Lausiaca, lxiv ) records that he found in a manuscript that was " very ancient " the following entry made by Origen: " This book I found in the house of Juliana, the virgin in Caesarea, when I was hiding there ; who said she had received it from Symmachus himself, the interpreter of the Jews ".

The collection also holds a number of European and Asian manuscript collections or single items have been received as part of formed book collections.

Two years later, Faulkner, surprised, received the galley copies and promptly decided to rewrite the manuscript as he was not satisfied with it.

He has received a manuscript written by one of his students that he considers near perfection.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

Each dot on magnification resumed its original condition as a drawing, a printed page, or a manuscript.

Both of these are important in regards to the uncertainty surrounding the Beowulf manuscript, as the works which it draws from or influences suggest time-frames of composition, geographic boundaries from which it could be composed, or range ( both spatial and temporal ) of influence ( i. e. when it was " popular " and where its " popularity " took it ).

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

The question of whether Beowulf was passed down through oral tradition prior to its present manuscript form has been the subject of much debate, and involves more than the mere matter of how it was composed.

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

* House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a work of fiction revolving around the discovery of a manuscript critiquing a documentary called The Navidson Record and its effects on both its author and editor.

Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish — although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

The surviving text agrees closely with that of the corresponding passages in the Gospel of John, but it cannot necessarily be assumed that the original manuscript contained the full Gospel of John in its canonical form.

T. S. Eliot's use of a quotation from Heart of Darkness —" Mistah Kurtz, he dead "— as an epigraph to the original manuscript of his poem The Hollow Men contrasted its dark horror with the presumed " light of civilization ," and suggested the ambiguity of both the dark motives of civilization and the freedom of barbarism, as well as the " spiritual darkness " of several characters in Heart of Darkness.

" That manuscript evidence is somewhat late, given its material composition and the climate of India, but it is very extensive.

Archimedes ' cattle problem ; its solution ( absent from the manuscript ) requires solving an indeterminate quadratic equation ( which reduces to what would later be misnamed Pell's equation ).

Although Italy's dominance as a centre of manuscript production began to decline, especially after the Gothic War ( 535 – 554 ) and the invasions by the Lombards, its manuscripts — and more important, the scripts in which they were written — were distributed across Europe.

The translation exist in its manuscript form and remains unpublished.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum houses the original manuscript in its collection.

King completely rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication.

One manuscript indicates that a sapphire altar was among the items King Henry VIII confiscated from the abbey at its dissolution a thousand years later.

Crowley retitled it Liber AL vel Legis in 1921, when he also gave the handwritten manuscript its own title, Liber XXXI.

The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché Maya kingdom, after watching Herzog's Fata Morgana ( in which Lotte Eisner reads parts of the Popol Vuh ).

The manuscript is " the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries ;" its 137 miniatures are a series of " portraits " depicting each poet.

The oldest poets represented in the manuscript had been dead for more than a century at the time of its compilations, while others were contemporaries, the latest even late additions of poems written during the early 14th century.