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- noun Plural form of
MS. . abbreviation ofmanuscripts .
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Examples
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Among the MSS. is the prayer book of King René, with illustrations said to have been done by himself.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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According to Felkin's statement, all that he had been able to find out was that the MSS. were the notes of ceremonies made by a man who had been initiated into a Lodge in Germany, and that the temple from which they originated was "a special temple" working on the Cabala tree like the
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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It has been a popular belief, found in every book till 1886 (now entirely disproved, but probably destined to die hard), that the common yellowish thick paper, with rough fibrous edge, found especially in Greek MSS. till the fifteenth century, was paper of quite another sort, and made of cotton (charta bombycna, bombyx being usually silk, but also used of any fine fibre such as cotton).
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[Page 9] youthful fame and genius were the pride of all, Harriet Prescott (now Mrs. Spofford), was Jane's friend and neighbor for years, and heard most of her books in MSS.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air 1888
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I was to be very busy thenceforth till the chaos of the MSS. was all got spun out into distinct webs - and after that till I tired, which was soon after, essential impulse being spent there.
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Of course, in Greek MSS. we know pretty well what to expect; fairly good ornament, rich details of embroidery, etc., wilfulness of colour in architecture, mannerism in the attitudes and faces, but good, clever technic and bright gold.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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The "Wilhelm von Oranse" of 1387, now in the Ambras Museum at Vienna (No. 7), affords splendid examples of the fine embroidered and richly coloured backgrounds we so often see towards 1400 in English MSS., and the Golden Bull of Charles IV., also in the Imperial Library at Vienna (j.c. 338), has the softly curling foliages variously coloured, which form the characteristic difference between the French and English illumination of the fifteenth century.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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But it ought to be said that the name Golias occurs principally in English MSS., where the Goliardic poems are ascribed to _Golias Episcopus.
Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866
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It is of importance in this connection to bear in mind that five of the poems attributed in English MSS. to Golias and Walter Map, namely,
Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866
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But if this is not meant, it is plain that some further hypothesis must be invented in order to explain why certain Greek MSS. of the fourth and fifth centuries are without the verses in dispute.
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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