Catalogue Entry: THEM00366

'An Interpretation of the Prophesy of Daniel's weeks by Iewish years' (section 7.1c)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 7.1c, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

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 + ?

[1] a Heb. cut upon, a phrase taken from the practise of numbring by cutting notches

[2] b Heb. seal, vizt as a book is sealed that is cannot be read.

[3] c To seal a writing is in the language of the Iews to finish or consummate it: a figure taken from sealing what is finished. So the Iews compute Ad obsignatum Misna, Ad obsignatum Talmud, that is, ad absolutum.

[4] d Heb. Vpon the wing of abominations he shall make it desolate, that is, in opposition to the dayly worship, he shall bring in the a{ccomo}dation of abominations which swiftnes as upon a wing by whose worship the land shall be polluted & become desolate of Iews

[4] a Heb. Vpon the wing of abominations he shall make it desolate, that is in opposition to the dayly worship he shall bring in a flood of abominations which swiftness as upon a wing by the worship of which the Iews with their religion shall become odious to the inhabitants of the land, & be persecuted & driven out of untill the consummation.

[5] b Or, at the consummation even that which is decreed shall be poured upon the Desolator.

[6] a Ezra

[7] b Isa. 23.13, & 7.8 Ier 48.42, 46, 47.

[8] c Ezra

[9] a Heb. Cut upon a phrase taken from the practise of numbring by cutting notches.

[10] b. Heb. Seal, viz as a book is sealed that it cannot be read.

[11] c. To seal a writing is in the language of the Iews, to consummate or finish it: a figure taken from sealing what is finished. So the Iews compute Ad obsignatum Misna, Ab obsignatum Talmud, that is, ad absolutum.

[12] e Or, at ..........desolator.

[13] Ezra 7

[14] a Heb. cut upon: a phrase taken from the practise of numbring by cutting lines or notches upon wood.

[15] b Heb. seal , vizt as a book is sealed that it cannot be read.

[16] a Heb. Cut upon, a phrase which may be taken from the practise of numbring by cutting notches.

[17] b. Heb. Seal, viz. as a book is sealed that it cannot be read.

[18] c To seal a writing is in the language of the Iews to consummate or finish it, a figure taken from sealing what is finished. So the Iews compute Ad obsignatum Misna, Ad obsignatum Talmud, that is, ad absolutum.

[19] d Heb. which maketh desolate.

[20] e at....desolator.

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