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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Mss
Britannica 11thMSS. in some of the skelae, or those in the libraries of Laura and Vatopedi, of which catalogues (hitherto unpublished) have been prepared by resident monks.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 ...
Antrim. Randal Macdonnell
Britannica 11th... will out, or the King's Letter justifying the Marquess of Antrim (1689); Hist. MSS. Comm. Series — MSS. of Marq. of Ormonde. (P. C. Y.)
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...