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Catalogue Entry: THEM00407

Chap: Of the Temple & Synagogues of the Jews

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: post-1710, in English , c. 23,724 words, 16 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 26.3, 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] 21,88

[Editorial Note 1] The following text to the end of f. 4v is written upside down.

[Editorial Note 2] The following text to the end of f. 5v is written upside down.

[2] Iespho kuntig. l. 11 c. 7.

[3] Ioseph. ib.

[4] a Nehem. 13. 28.

[5] Ioseph Antiq. l. 11. c 8 & l 12 c 2

[6] a Ioma fol. 69. 1 & Sepher Iuchasim & Sepher Hakkabbala & David Gans in Zemach David et Maimondes in Præf. Iad. Vide Historiam Doctorū Misnicorum p. 14 15, 16, 17

[7] Ioseph l. 11. c. 8 & l. 12. c. 3.

[Editorial Note 3] This page is written upside down.

[8] Ezra 10.6

[9] Nehem. 13

[10] Nehem 13. 28

[11] Ioseph. Antiq. l. 11. c. 7.

[12] Ioseph. Antiq. l. 11. c. 8 & l. 12. c. 2.

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