Catalogue Entry: THEM00069

Draft chapters of The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (post-1710)

Author: Isaac Newton

• Chap. 1: Of the Assyrian Empire
  [Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]
• Chap. IV. Of the Babylonian Empire
  [Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]
• Chap. 1: Of the Chronology of the first ages of the Greeks & Latines
  [Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]
• Chap: Of the Temple & Synagogues of the Jews
  [Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Metadata: post-1710, in English with some Latin, Greek and Hebrew , c. 64,817 words, 99 pp. on 74 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 26, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

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

Contents

Ms. 26.1

f. 1r 'Chap. 1/ Of the Assyrian Empire' (10 ff.)

f. 1r 'Chap. IV./ Of the Babylonian Empire' (9 ff.)

Ms. 26.2 (1720s)

f. 1r 'Chap. 1/ Of the Chronology of the first ages of the Greeks & Latins' (title page plus 38 ff.)

Ms. 26.3

f. 1r 'Chap. / Of the Temple & Synagogues of the Iews'

f. 3r 'Chap. / Of the Temple & Synagogue of the Iews' (another draft, 14 ff.)