Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

Tallis ', and a reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Tallis and Byrd in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Thomas Tallis of the Chapel Royal.

* Cato's De Agricultura: Latin text, English translation, information on the manuscripts, prefatory material.

" A companion publication is planned, consisting of extended prefatory material, including a technical description of the source, information on the organs played by Louis Couperin, and suggestions for performance.

) The Basel edition is missing some of Constantine's prefatory material, but Mark Jordan notes that, while both Basel and Lyons editions are problematic, and have undergone some humanistic retouching, the Basel edition may be more reliable.

The prefatory material has Pope speaking in his own defense, although under a variety of other names ; for example, " A Letter to the Publisher Occasioned by the Present Edition of the Dunciad " is signed by William Cleland ( d. 1741 ), one of Pope's friends and father of John Cleland, but it was probably written by Pope himself.

These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart's 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.

The Gospel Book manuscript dating from the 9th century contains the Latin text of the four Gospels, along with prefatory material and canon tables – an interesting admixture of traditions.

A copy of a page of the prefatory material for Mark was made in 1725 for the Earl of Oxford, and used by Thomas Astle for his book The Origin and Progress of Writing, which was published in 1784.

Image: CottonCorpusGospelFragFol25vFacsimile. jpg | Astle's copy of the prefatory material of Mark.

Folio 25v from the Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment ( British Library, MS Cotton Otho C V ), prefatory material for Mark.

In the prefatory material to his first short story collection he insisted it was infinitely more difficult to paint a likeness of a dog or horse one had actually seen than to render a ghost or goblin one had never observed ( a quotation from Han Feizi ).

Paris's manuscripts mostly contain more than one text, and often begin with a rather random assortment of prefatory full-page miniatures.

The text includes the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, plus several pieces of prefatory matter and canon tables.

Every chapter of the Genesis Rabba is headed by the first verse of the passage to be explained, and is introduced, with few exceptions, by one or more prefatory remarks starting from a verse taken from another Biblical passage as text — generally from the Writings or Ketuvim.

But even then the text was probably not finally closed, for longer or shorter passages could always be added, the number of prefatory passages to a section be increased, and those existing be enlarged by accretion.

These words also serve to open a prefatory prayer within the text of the bull calling on the Lord to arise against the " foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard " and the destructive " wild boar from the forest.

( 58 ), sometimes known as the Book of Columba ) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.

In a prefatory essay to readers, the translation committee said that " although some readers may regret this change, it should be pointed out that in the original languages neither the Old Testament nor the New makes any linguistic distinction between addressing a human being and addressing the Deity.

' are taken to refer to the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, though Thorpe usually signed prefatory matter only if the author was out of the country or dead.

Many psalters, particularly from the 12th century onwards, included a richly decorated " prefatory cycle "-a series of full-page illuminations preceding the Psalms, usually illustrating the Passion story, though some also featuring Old Testament narratives.

His most important work is Theatrum poetarum ( 1675 ), a list of the chief poets of all ages and countries, but principally of the English poets, with short critical notes and a prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry, which has usually been traced to Milton's hand.

Under the heading " Adam " the author of the lexicon ( which a prefatory note states to be " by Suidas ") gives a brief chronology of the world, ending with the death of the emperor John I Tzimiskes ( 975 ), and under Constantinople his successors Basil II ( 976-1025 ) and Constantine VIII ( 1025 – 1028 ) are mentioned.

This is supported by something Calvin himself says in his prefatory address to King Francis: " My intention was only to furnish a kind of rudiments, by which those who feel some interest in religion might be trained to true godliness.

In prefatory remarks to his edition of the works, Otto von Irmer notes that Beethoven meant the six bagatelles to be played in order as a single work, as least insofar as this can be inferred from a marginal annotation Beethoven made in the manuscript: " Ciclus von Kleinigkeiten " ( cycle of little pieces ).

The best description of the play's style can be found in Strindberg's prefatory note:

The prefatory letter Baudelaire wrote to Arsene Houssaye, the editor of La Presse, was not necessarily intended to be included in the publication.

It contains, amid much prefatory matter, a " note to the carping and scornefull Sicophant ," in which he attacks his foes with small courtesy and much alliteration.

The later edition contained a prefatory essay, An Attempt at Self-Criticism, wherein Nietzsche commented on this earliest book.

See prefatory notices by Sir Harris Nicolas to his Poetical Works ( new ed., 1866 ) in the Aldine Press British poets ; by Harry Kirke Swann in the volume of selections ( 1897 ) in the Canterbury Poets ; and by John Drinkwater to the edition in the " Muses ' Library.

In 1858 he published a 3-volume edition of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces from our earlier poets, authoring a prefatory ' Memoir and Critical Dissertation ' entitled ' Life of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore ; with Remarks on Ballad Poetry.

He began preparing a series of prefatory notes for the re-publication of all his works in a standard edition published by Michael Joseph.

The introduction of the most recent edition by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale offers both praise and criticism for Ludovici's edition, saying that, " Dr. Levy was probably quite right when in a prefatory note he called Ludovici ' the most gifted and conscientious of my collaborators ,' but unfortunately this does not mean that Ludovici's translations are roughly reliable .... Let us say that Ludovici was not a philosopher, and let it go at that.

This edition was collated ( 1890 ) with the British Museum copy of 1575 by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory matter, including an introduction dealing with the importance of Italian novella in Elizabethan drama.

Giovanni Battista Ramusio first includes Odoric's narrative in the second volume of the second edition ( 1574 ) ( Italian version ), in which are given two versions, differing curiously from one another, but without any prefatory matter or explanation.

Though its subversive theme was apparent to most readers, the poem escaped censorship due to conflicts among the censors and, in the second edition, a prefatory homage to Tsar Nicholas I.

This volume presents in admirable facsimile, with prefatory notices and indexes, the Latin inscriptions from the earliest times to the end of the Republic.

In a prefatory letter Hesychius mentions that his lexicon is based on that of Diogenianus ( itself extracted from an earlier work by Pamphilus ), but that he has also used similar works by the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, Apion, Heliodorus, Amerias and others.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

As king of the Munster síde with Lén as his smith, Bodb Sída ar Femen (' of the Mound on Femen ') plays a role in an important prefatory tale to Táin Bó Cuailnge, for it is his swineherd who quarrels with that of the king of the Connacht síde ; the swineherds are later swallowed and reborn as the magical bulls Donn Cuailnge and Finnbennach, of which the former was the object of the great cattle-raid.

There is a prefatory cycle of illustrations which are also on purple dyed parchment.

The King republished it, with some new prefatory matter, on April 25, 1688.

The sixth movement " Avalon ", another reference to the Arthurian legends, is the real slow movement ; its prefatory quotation is " We impose on one another, and it is but lost time to converse with you whose words are only Analytics ". The Finale " The New Jerusalem " is prefaced " Without Contraries is no progression "' alluding to the use by the composer of a structural device known as progressive tonality.

In a prefatory note addressed to the book's child readers, Neill states that he and his family live in Flanders, New Jersey, which he describes as " on top of the Schooley Mountains and the Jenny Jump Mountains are really truly mountains right next to us.