Catalogue Entry: THEM00405

Chap. IV. Of the Babylonian Empire

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 26.1b, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

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Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £44, and acquired by Yahuda on 14 August 1936 (narrowly beating Keynes, who was informed three days later that it had already gone).

Sotheby Lot

SL225

[1] 2 King. 23.

[2] a Eupoleonus apud Euseb. Prœp. l. 9. c. 39. 2 King. XXIV. 2, 7.

[3] b Dan. I. 1.

[4] c Dan I. 2. 2 Chron XXXVI. 6.

[5] d Ier. XLVI. 2.

[6] e Apud Ioseph. Antiq. l. 10. c. 11.

[7] a Beros. apud Ioseph. Antiqu, l. 10. c. 11.

[8] 2 King. XXIV. 12 14. 2 Chron. XXXVI. 10.

[9] Ezek. XVII. 13, 16, 18.

[10] Ezek. XVII. 15

[11] 2 King. XXV. 1, 2, 3. Ser. XXXII. 1. & XXXIX. 1, 2.

[12] a Canon & Berez

[13] b 2 King. XXV. 27.

[14] Hieron. in Isa XIV. 19.

[15] 2 King. XXX. 27.

[16] aHerod. l. 1

[17] Dan. V. 12, 22.

[18] Antiq. l. 10. c. 12.

[19] Baruch I. 11, 12

[20] Herod. l. 1.

[21] Philost. in vita Apollonij.

[22] Cont. Apion l. 1. & Antiq. l. 10. c. 11.

[23] e Herod. l. 1.

[24] Herod. l. 1

[25] Herod. l. 1

[26] Plin. l. 6. c. 26. Megathenes apud Euseb. Prœp. l. 9. c. 41.

[27] Pausan. l. 4. c. 23.

[28] Diodor. l. 1. p. 17, 51.

[29] b Lib. 1. p. 51

[30] c Apud Ioseph. Antiq. l. 1. c. 5

[31] Herod l. 1

[32] Herod. l. 1. Strabo l. 16. p. 745. & Baruch VI. 43.

[33] Ezek. 41. 13, 14.

[34] Ezek. 40. 47.

[35] Ezek. 40. 29, 33, 36.

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