Public Domain Encyclopedia Database

Search the scanned history of knowledge.

Compare encyclopedia entries across editions, inspect page scans, and trace every article back to its source volume.

Limit to sources
5source families
1366article records
1356imported with text

Search results

28 results for “Mss”

Results are grouped by encyclopedia. Grouped by encyclopedia. Each record links to article text, topic comparison, and available source evidence.

Source family

Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

28 matches

Mss

Britannica 11th

MSS. in some of the skelae, or those in the libraries of Laura and Vatopedi, of which catalogues (hitherto unpublished) have been prepared by resident monks. The canonic MSS. only of Vatopedi and Laura have been catalogued by Benessevich in the supplement to v ...

Vol. 2, pp. 852-852 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Apollonius Of Tyre

Britannica 11th

... in the Shakespearian play of Pericles. The Latin tale is preserved in about 100 MSS., and was printed by M.Velser (Augsburg, 1595), by J. Lapaumein Script. Erot. (Didot,. Paris, 1856), and by A. Riese in the Bibl. Teubneriana (1871, new ed. 1893). The most wid ...

Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Apologetics

Britannica 11th

... icle in Herzog-Hauck, not the title of the oldest Paris MS., but found in later MSS. and almost all the printed editions) or Liber Creaturarum (c. 1435). The book is not what moderns (schooled unconsciously in post-Reformation developments of Thomist ideas) ex ...

Vol. 2, pp. 189-194 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Arculf

Britannica 11th

... ory of St George which ever seems to have attracted notice in Britain. Thirteen MSS. of the original Arculf-Adamnan narrative exist, and fully 100 of Bede's abridgment : of the former, the most important, containing all the plans, are (l) Bern, Canton Library, ...

Vol. 2, pp. 448-448 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Ardebil

Britannica 11th

... and college attached, and had a fine library containing many rare and valuable MSS. presented by Shah Abbas I. at the beginning of the 1 7th century, and mostly carried off by the Russians in 1828 and placed in the library at St Petersburg. The grand carpet w ...

Vol. 2, pp. 449-449 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Argyll. Earls And Dukes Of

Britannica 11th

... rs from A rchibald, <Hk Earl ofArgyle, to Ike Duke of Lauderdale (1829) ; Hist. MSS. Comm. vi. Rep. 606; Life of Mr Donald Cargile, by P. Walker, po. 45 et seq.; The 3rd Part of &e Protestant Plot . . . and a Brief Account of the Case of the Earl of Argyle (16 ...

Vol. 2, pp. 483-486 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Aubrey, John

Britannica 11th

... 6, was edited for the Clarendon Press in 1898 by the Rev. Andrew Clark from the MSS. in the Bodleian, Oxford. See also John Britton, Memoir of John Aubrey (1845); David Masson, in the British Quarterly Review, July 1856; Emile Montegut, Ileurcs de lecture d'un ...

Vol. 2, pp. 891-891 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Auckland

Britannica 11th

... art gallery and free library contain excellent pictures, and valuable books and MSS. presented by Sir G. Grey. The museum contains one of the best existing collections of Maori art. There are an opera-house and an academy of music. The Auckland University Coll ...

Vol. 2, pp. 894-894 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Charles Marc Rene De Voyer

Britannica 11th

... es of the scientific congress at Tours in 1847; brought out two editions of the MSS. of his great-grand-uncle, the minister of foreign affairs under Louis XV., under the title Memoires du marquis d'Argenson, one in 1825, and the other, in 5 vols., in 18571858; ...

Vol. 2, pp. 460-460 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Emmaus

Britannica 11th

... ndication of direction, as being 60 stadia (almost 7 m.) , or according to some MSS.1 160 stadia, from Jerusalem. Its identification is a matter of mere guesswork: it has been sought at (a) EmmausNicopolis (see 2 below), distant 176 stadia from Jerusalem; (6) ...

Vol. 9, pp. 342-342 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Emmendingen

Britannica 11th

... Nicopolis held by Eusebius and Jerome. For a curious reading in three old Latin MSS. which makes Emmaus the name of the second traveller on the journey, see Expos. Times, xiii. 429, 477, 56i. Emmendingen was formerly the seat of the counts of Hochberg, a cadet ...

Vol. 9, pp. 342-342 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Ephesians

Britannica 11th

... Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, as well as in all the earliest MSS. and versions. Marcion, however (c. A.D. 150), used and recommended copies with the title " To the Laodiceans." This would be inexplicable if Eph. i.i had read.in Marcion's cop ...

Vol. 9, pp. 670-672 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Erasmus, Desiderius

Britannica 11th

... l discoveries of the i7th century. Even if Erasmus ha'd had at his disposal the MSS. subsidia for forming a text, he had not the critical skill required to use them. He had at hand a few late Basel MSS. , one of which he sent straight to press, correcting them ...

Vol. 9, pp. 727-732 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Erroll

Britannica 11th

... lub Miscellany, vol. ii. 211); Andrew Lang, Hist, of Scotland, vol. ii. ; Hist. MSS. Comm. MSS. of Earl of Mar and Kettie; D. Calderwood's Hist, of the Church of Scotland; John Spalding's Memorials (Spalding Club, 1850); Collected Essays of T. G. Law, ed. by P ...

Vol. 9, pp. 754-754 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Esztergom

Britannica 11th

... erected in 1883 ; the archiepiscopal library, with valuable incunabula and old MSS.; the seminary for the education of Roman Catholic priests; the residences of the chapter; and the town-hall. The population is chiefly employed in cloth-weaving, wine-making a ...

Vol. 9, pp. 803-803 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Ethiopic Literature

Britannica 11th

... he same works, but it has contributed some resh titles. A conspectus of all the MSS. known to exist in Jurope (over 1200 in number) was published by C. C. Rossini n 1899 (Rendiconti Accad. Lincei, ser. v. vol. viii.); of these he largest collection is that in ...

Vol. 9, pp. 847-849 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Eucharist

Britannica 11th

... Luke's account is too much interpolated from Paul, and the texts of his oldest MSS. too discrepant, for us to rely on it except so far as it supports the other gospels. It emphasizes the fact that the Last Supper was the Pascha. " With desire have I desired t ...

Vol. 9, pp. 868-876 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Euclid

Britannica 11th

... t3i[3\. ie in T&V G&OPOS tTvvovffiojv. It was edited by Simon Grynaeus from two MSS. sent to him, the one from Venice by Lazarus Bayfius, and the other from Paris by John Ruellius. The four books of Proclus's commentary are given at the end from an Oxford MS. ...

Vol. 9, pp. 879-880 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Eusebius

Britannica 11th

... , 1861), the Utter in the original Greek attached to the Church History in most MSS. (printed with the History in the various editions). The Life of Constantine, in four books, published after the death of the emperor, which occurred in 337, is a panegyric rat ...

Vol. 9, pp. 953-956 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Eustathius

Britannica 11th

... have been a person of distinction, and if he is also correctly described in the MSS. as jifryot xapro^Xai (chief keeper of the ecclesiastical archives), he must have been a Christian. He was the author of The Story ofHysmine and Hysminias, in eleven books, a t ...

Vol. 9, pp. 957-957 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Swithun

Britannica 11th

... , i. 168; T. Rudborne ap. Wharton's Anglia sacra, i. 287; T. D. Hardy's Cat. of MSS. i. 513-517; J. Brand's Popular Antiquities; R. Chambers's Book of Days; Ethelwulf's Tithe Charters, nearly all of which refer to St Swithun in the body of the text, may be stu ...

Vol. 26, pp. 238-238 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Texas

Britannica 11th

... nition. Technically the term is also applied to a particular form of writing in MSS. before the age of printing, and so, in composition, in such uses as " text-hand," " text-writer," &c. A " text-book " is a manual or handbook of instruction, such as is used b ...

Vol. 26, pp. 688-693 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Theatre

Britannica 11th

... e publications of the New Shakspere Society; the Ninth Report of the Historical MSS. Commission ; and a series of articles on early London theatres, by T. F. Ordish, in The Antiquary, vols. xi., xii. and xiv. (1885^86;. On the problems connected with the const ...

Vol. 26, pp. 729-738 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Theodorus

Britannica 11th

... nks of Studium, Theodore was famous for his calligraphy and industry in copying MSS. BIBLIOGRAPHY. — General edition of his works in J. P. Migne, Patroloeia Graeca, xcix., to be supplemented (for the Letters) by A. MaPs Patrum Nova Bibliotheca, viii. (1871) an ...

Vol. 26, pp. 769-769 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Tolstoy, Leo

Britannica 11th

... den effort. In accordance with the common practice, he received nothing for the MSS. Publication of a first attempt was considered ample payment in those days. Tolstoy was now twenty-four years of age. Childhood was followed by The Landlord's Morning, Boyhood ...

Vol. 26, pp. 1053-1060 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Traherne

Britannica 11th

... dshire. When the property of this family was dispersed in 1888 the value of the MSS. was unrecognised, for in 1896 or 1897 they were discovered by Mr W. T. Brooke on a street bookstall. Dr Grosart bought them, and proposed to include them in his edition of the ...

Vol. 27, pp. 155-155 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

United States

Britannica 11th

... ional matter may also be found in many of the reports of the British Historical MSS. Commission. Hazard's Historical Collections (2 vols., Philadelphia, I792-I7_94) is still valuable. B. Parley Poore's Federal and State Constitutions (2 vols., Washington, 1877 ...

Vol. 27, pp. 612-735 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0