Catalogue Entry: THEM00367

Four draft chapters on prophecy (section 7.1d)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 7.1d, 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 + ?

Contents

f. 1 'An Account of the Empire of the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, according to the descriptions of them given by Daniel' (2 drafts).

f. 8 'Of the kingoms represented in Daniel by the four Beasts, & of the ten horns of the fourth Beast.'

f. 24 'Sect. III./ Of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast.'

ff. 25-31 'Chap. III./ Of ye eleventh Kingdom signified by the little horn wch arose after the tenth.'

[1] consuming

[2] Horeby V. p. 306

[3] ✝ number of Kingdoms represented by the beasts

[4] a council of a kingdom by its image, Idolatry by blasphemy

[5] ✝ the pain of a woman in labour to bring forth a manchild

[6] An {entirely} new Chapter of the vision of the Image of the 4 metals is added before this

[7] n

[8] a Procop. l. 1 de Bello Vandal.

[9] ✝ Galli Arborici. Whence the region was named Arboric-bant, & contractly Brabant.

[10] Apud Bucherum l. 14, c. 9 n. 8.

[11] a Rolevine's Antiqua Saxon. l. 1. c. 6.

[12] Sigonius de Regno Italiæ ad Ann. 726.

[13] Senate

[14] Sigon. de Regn. Italiæ ad Ann. 726, 752.

[15] Sigon. ib. Ann. 750

[16] Sigon. ib. An. 753, 754, 755.

[17] Sigon. ib. an. 773.

[18] Sigon. de Regn. Ital. ad Ann. 796/

[19] Vide Anastasium.

[20] Sigon. de Regn Italiæ

[21] Vide Actorum Erudit. Suppl. Tom. 2. Sect. 1. pag. 37, 38.

[22] a Confirmationem recitat Sigonius Lib. 4 de Regno Italiæ ad Ann. 817.

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