...Collon3 had also called attention to the somewhat primitive character of its script, which suggests the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century. Recently, M. Lauer 4 ascribes it to a period closely following the writing of the Maurdramnus Bible...

...community of Fez is intertwined with that of the city since its founding by the Idrisid dynasty at the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century. 52 The early Jewish 50 See discussion in chapter II on the demography of the Mellah and population...

...history, who reduced the main principles to writing was, Vasugupta. He is said to have lived towards the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century AD Since then, philosophical writing had been an active and continued process in Kashmir which went...

...for centuries found a home in Ireland. It is the Book of Kellst This Gospel Book, often dated towards the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century, was happily not destroyed by the Vikings, but their incursions served to obscure its original provenance....

...hand and of the Pratyabijna Sastra on the other may respectively be called — had their birth towards the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century AD; and they were founded by men who were regarded as holy sages. The work of Somananda was carried...

...illuminated pages of human and mythic figures. The exact date of the manuscript is unknown, although the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century is a plausible date. It is believed to have been created at the Columban monastery in Kells, County...

...with the site of that town which, throughout all antiquity and down to its complete destruction at the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century AD, was called Ilium, and not until 1000 years after its disappearance — that is 1788 AD — was...

...by Insular artists, on their islands. The cross-fragment Lindisfame 1 is dated by Rosemary Cramp to the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century, though its manuscript sources are clearly much earlier." Local copying at one level, such a reflex...

...one had the sagitta, the other the gladius variant. Both were executed at two different centres at the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century, roughly at the time of Charlemagne. One of these centres probably was in (south-)western France, responsible,...

...peoples, probably the Karluks (among whom Christianity was particularly widespread), were converted at the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century. One of the most famous missionaries of the Nestorian Church at that time was Shubkhalisho, who preached...