Catalogue Entry: THEM00063
Expanded Latin translation of the first part of 'Two Notable Corruptions'
Custodial History
Bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Maxwell' (i.e. Lymington) for £2.10s. See notes to Yahuda Ms. 19 for subsequent history.
Sotheby Lot
SL267Contents
f. 1 Title page: 'Sancti Iohannis Apostoli Vindiciæ contra Novatores et Falsarios.'
Subsidiary title page: 'Corruptelæ Duorum Celebrium in Sacris Literis Locorum Historica Narratio. Sive Dissertatio Critica et Historica de Ceberrimis [sic] duobus N T. Locis a priscis tam Græci quam Latini Nominis Scriptoribus attentatis olim, et corruptis. Vizt 1. Ep. Ioh. 5 etc., 1. Ep. Tim 3.16. In Epistola ad virum Nobilissimum Eruditissimumque perscripta.'
The text in fact deals only with 1 John 5:7. A note on this verse, in an unidentified hand (wrongly described as Newton's in the Sotheby catalogue), is loosely inserted after f. 1.
Notes
In the hand of Hopton Haynes, Newton's protégé at the Mint.
[1] The contents of this note are only visible in the diplomatic transcript because they were deleted on the original manuscript
[2] The contents of this note are only visible in the diplomatic transcript because they were deleted on the original manuscript
[3] q.
[4] a Suspicor ἐν τη γη non extare in MS.
[5] ✝ et fidos
[6] q
[7] q
[8] q.
