What is "mss"

Usage examples of "mss".

His large library included a fine collection of Aldine editions and Greek and Latin MSS.

Intense black or a black tinged with red-brown characterizes the color of the inks found on the very earliest MSS.

Those inks which remain to us are to be found only as written with on ancient MSS.

It was the form also usually chosen for ornamentation or imitation in those Visigothic, Merovingian, or Lombardic MSS.

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The fall of the second, and the rise of the third, appears so enormous, that several critics, notwithstanding the unanimity of the Mss.

For the very first man, Adam, before he begot his son Seth, is in our manuscripts found to have lived 230 years, but in the Hebrew mss.

With regard to the place where the nuptials were stipulated, or consummated, or celebrated, the Mss.

The fall of the second, and the rise of the third, appears so enormous, that several critics, notwithstanding the unanimity of the Mss., have suspected some corruption of the text of Livy.

Endlicher in his valuable catalogue of Latin Mss. in the library of Vienna, p.

Besides our printed authors, he draws his materials from the Arabic Mss. of Oxford, which he would have more deeply searched had he been confined to the Bodleian library instead of the city jail a fate how unworthy of the man and of his country!

For the very first man, Adam, before he begot his son Seth, is in our manuscripts found to have lived 230 years, but in the Hebrew mss. 130.

In the seventh, however, of which Enoch is the representative, who is recorded to have been translated without death because he pleased God, there is the same discrepancy as in the first five generations, 100 years more being ascribed to him by our mss. before he begat a son.

For the Hebrew Mss. represent him as living twenty-four years more than ours assign to him.

Certain it is that Methuselah did not survive the flood, but died in the very year it occurred, if the numbers given in the Hebrew mss. are true.