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Hypostasis of the Archons is a Sethian Gnostic text. [1] [2] The Gnostics held a negative view of the material world, which they believed was made by a flawed creator inferior to the ultimate God, and professed a soteriology of salvation through knowledge. [3]
Yang Yin, the brother-in-law of the prominent writer Wang Tao, found the incomplete manuscript of the work at a stall selling second-hand books. He gave the four parts to Wang Tao, who was in charge of the Shanghai newspaper Shen Bao. Wang Tao published the manuscript in letterpress in 1877, whereupon it became an instant bestseller.
The oldest existing fragments of the incomplete manuscript are in the 643-page Vitae Sanctorum manuscript (Arm. 178, folios 467-472) dated to the 12th century, which are kept in Paris's Bibliothèque nationale [6] and were copied by the scribe Poghos. [7]
The Harusame Monogatari (kanji: 春雨 物語, hiragana: はるさめものがたり, translated as "The Tales of Spring Rain" (less commonly "Tales of the Spring Rain") is the second famous collection of Japanese stories by Ueda Akinari after the Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Moonlight and Rain").
Lebor na hUidre (Middle Irish: [ˈl͈ʲevor nˠə ˈhuiðʲrʲə], LU) or the Book of the Dun Cow (MS 23 E 25) is an Irish vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century. It is the oldest extant manuscript in Irish. It is held in the Royal Irish Academy and is badly damaged: only
The only surviving manuscript is a 6th-century Latin translation of the Greek text. The manuscript was incomplete, and the rest of the text is lost. From references in ancient works, it is thought that the missing text may have depicted a dispute over the body of Moses, between the archangel Michael and satan. Seth and Joshua and several ...
Koshikibu is also known in some incomplete manuscripts as Izumi Shikibu no monogatari. [1] The primary title Koshikibu refers to Koshikibu no Naishi, but the work is actually about three generations in the family, including her mother Izumi Shikibu and grandmother Murasaki Shikibu. [1]
The play survives only as an anonymous, untitled and incomplete manuscript, part of a collection of fifteen plays in the British Library catalogued as MS. Egerton 1994.The collection was discovered by James Halliwell-Phillipps, and also includes Edmund Ironside, another play whose authorship has been attributed by some scholars to William Shakespeare.