Catalogue Entry: THEM00364
Four draft chapters on prophecy (section 7.1a)
Custodial History
SL245, described in the Sotheby catalogue as c. 300,000 words on 975 pp., was bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £48 and sold to Yahuda on 1 Aug. 1936 for the sale price plus 15%. On 24 May 1949, Yahuda wrote to the London dealer Heinrich Eisemann, 'As to lot 245 the new arrangement and replacement of the pages resulted in 1,530 pages instead of 975 pages as many pages had to be taken out from other lots. But for this manuscript I have a customer who wants to pay a much higher price than $3,800 suggested by you.' If this was true, the prospective buyer's desire to part with his or her cash presumably waned. There must subsequently have been further reordering of the manuscript as the present Yahuda Ms. 7 amounts to nowhere near 1,530 pp.
Sotheby Lot
SL245 + ?Contents
f. 1 'Chap. 1/ Of the original of Monarchies
f. 7 'Chap. 10/ Of the daily worship & the abomination of Desolation.'
f. 9 'Chap. / Of the daily worship & abomination of desolation'
[f. 10 blank]
f. 11 'Sect. III./ Of the daily worship taken away & the abomination of desolation set up.'
[1] Herod. l. 1
[2] lib. 14
[3] Polyistor apud Euseb. Chron. gr.
[4] Ezek. 1.1
[5] 2 Abendana p. 172
[Editorial Note 1] The remainder of the text on this page is written upside down.
[Editorial Note 2] The remainder of the text on this page is written upside down.
[Editorial Note 3] The following passage is written upside down and runs backward from f. 8v to f. 7v.
[6] Iohn. 16.7, 13, 14
[Editorial Note 4] Folios 9v-10v are blank but for page numbers.
