Catalogue Entry: THEM00047

'Variantes Lectiones Apocalypticæ'

Author: Isaac Newton

• 'Variantes Lectiones Apocalypticae' (version 1)
  [Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]
• 'Variantes Lectiones Apocalypticae' (version 2)
  [Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Metadata: 1693 and earlier, in Latin and Greek , c. 35,121 words, 105 pp.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 4, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £20, and subsequently sold to Yahuda.

Sotheby Lot

SL231

Contents

Two bundles, the latter being an earlier draft version. Variant readings of Revelation in manuscripts of the Greek New Testament from the Codex Bezæ, Stephanus, Erasmus, and two manuscripts provided by John Covel, laboriously collated by Newton for John Mill (see Keynes Ms. 100). The date 1693 appears on the last folio of the first bundle.

Related Material

Newton's covering letter for the copy of this manuscript that he sent to Mill, dated 29 January 1693/4, is printed in NC, 3: 303-4: he observes that he is sending 'not only my old collations so far as they vary from yours, but also some new ones of Dr Covils two MSS'.