Catalogue Entry: THEM00428
Fragment on the Revelation of Daniel (section 7.3j)
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 + ?[Editorial Note 1] The deleted two-line passage at the top of this page has been added to the text in Yahuda 7.2j, f. 127v.
[Editorial Note 2] This section may or may not follow from that on 3v.
[Editorial Note 3] This material seems to match that on lower 3r, and may be a subsequent draft.
[Editorial Note 4] This may have been the beginning of an earlier (probably mistaken, given the differing number of horns: 2 vs 10) addition of "the two-horned beast" before he decided on "Babylonian" above.
[Editorial Note 5] This material matches that at the top of 2r; it may be another draft.
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