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Catalogue Entry: THEM00404

Chap. 1: Of the Assyrian Empire

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: post-1710, in English with some Greek and Hebrew , c. 5,935 words, 10 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 26.1a, 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] a Ionah. 3. 6. 7.

[2] Amos. 6. 14.

[3] Amos. 8. 7.

[4] Amos. VI. 2

[5] 2 King. XIX. II.

[6] Isa. x. 8.

[7] 1 Chron. v. 26.

[8] 2 King. XVI 9 & XVII. 6

[9] 2 King. XVII. 24 Ezra. IV. 9.

[10] 2 King. XXVI. 29, 30, 31 & XXVII. 33, 34, 35. 2 Chron XXXII. 15.

[11] 2 Chron XXXII. 13.17.

[12] a Annales Tyrij; apud Iosephum l. 9. Antiq. c. ult.

[13] b 2 King. XVII. 6.

[14] c 2 King. XVIII. 24, 30, 31.

[15] d Ezra IV. 10.

[16] Canon Ptoh.

[17] a Sec Isa. 19.

[18] Herod. l. 1. Steph. in Παρθᾶιοι

[19] a Apud Athenæum l. 12 prope medium.

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