Catalogue Entry: THEM00431
Fragment on Athanasius and the corruption of the true Church (section 7.3m)
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] Small superscript numerals "2" and "1" indicate an authorial switch of original phrase order.
[Editorial Note 2] Multiple authorial changes here: 1. "He had been a Monck" 2. "For in his..." 3. "In his..."
[Editorial Note 3] The following matches material at the middle of 4r.
[Editorial Note 4] Not a new paragraph. Continues, using the following add, the paragraph before the above deletion.
[1] Cyril. l. 10 contr. Iul. T. 6. p. 335. B, C.
[Editorial Note 5] This seems to match, or be a revision of, the first paragraph of f. 10r.
[Editorial Note 6] The following passage has been re-ordered using circled numerals.
