Catalogue Entry: THEM00434

Drafts on chronology: section 2f

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 25.2f, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £90 and presumably acquired by Yahuda not long afterwards.

Sotheby Lot

SL226

[Editorial Note 1] The bottom half of this page contains several tables with data related to star observations.

[1] a Vide Basnagij Annal. ad anni. ante Chr. 40 sect 16.

[2] 1 Kings 9.21, 23.

[3] 2 Sam. 5.11.

[4] Iosep. c. App. l. 1

[5] 1 King. 9. 21, 22.

[6] e Athen. l. 4. c. 23.

[7] f Strabo l. 18 p. 661. Herod. l. 1.

[8] d Solin. cap. 26.

[9] c Strabo lib. 3. p. 140.

[10] d Aristot. de mirabil.

[11] e Achil. Tatij. l. 2. initio p. 67

[12] f Phil. ib. l. 2. c. 14

[13] c Vita Homeri Herodoto ascripta

[14] c Vita Homeri Herodoto ascripta

[15] d Herod. l. 2

[16] Pausan. l. 8. c. 2.

[17] a Strabo l 16 p 758 ab & l 17 p 819 b, & p. 786 c

[Editorial Note 2] This marginal addition continues materials from a previous page.

[18] Theog. v. 364, 367.

[19] Bochart, Phænic p. 822. Marsham Chron. Can. p. 65

[20] Herod. l. 2

[21] Plutarch in Lycurgo

[22] Virgil. Æn. 4. v. 143 Macrob. Saturn. l. 1. c. 17. Herod. l. 4. c. 1. Pausan. l. 2. c. 24 Herod. l. 1. c. 46. Steph. in Αβαι Pausan l. 7. c. 21 Plutarch in Agide Strabo l. 11 p. 498. c. Pausan. l. 3. c. 26.

[23] Herod. l. 2. c. 50, 52

[24] Pausan. l. 1. c. 2

[25] Ad Pyth. 4.

[26] Strabo l. 10. c. 5

[27] Apollodor l. 1. c. 7. s. 2. Scholiast. Apollon. Arg. l. 1. v. 118.

[Editorial Note 3] The bottom half of this page is torn.

[28] Isa. XIX.

[Editorial Note 4] The bottom half of this page is torn.

[Editorial Note 5] The following — damaged — fragment occurs at the tight hand bottom of the page, and is most likely part of an addition to the main text on fol. 15r. Only the last few words of each line are preserved.

[29] Isa. XIX.

[30] a Apud Diodor l. 5. c. 4.

[31] b Plutarch in Iside.

[32] c Herod. l. 2.

[33] d

[34] e

[35] f Pausan. l. 1. c. 30. Orphei Argonaut. v. 738.

[36] h Pausan. l. 7. c. 21.

[37] b Ioseph. l. 9. c. 12.

[38] b Ioseph. l. 9. c. 12.

[39] a M     apud Ioseph. l. 9. c. ult

[40] 2 King. 17.6.

[41] b Beros. apud. Ioseph. l. 10. c. 1. Herod. l. 2. c. 141.

[42] Tob. 1.

[43] q Isa. 20.1

[44] r Esra. 4.10.

[45] c Isa. 20.1.

[46] d 2 Chron. 33.

[47] e Ezra 4.2.

[48] f 2 Kin. 17.24.

[49] g 2 King. 19.13.

[50] h Isa. 20.4. Nahum. 3.8, 10.

[51] Isa. 23.13.

[52] a Herod. l. 1. c. 178

[53] b. Strabo l. 16. p. 737.

[54] b. Strabo l. 16. p. 737.

[55] c Herod. l. c. 178 d & c. 106.

[56] Tobit 1.15.

[57] b Nicholaus Damascenus apud Ioseph antiq. l. 7 c. 6.

[58] a

[Editorial Note 6] The next folio is irregularly numbered 31a. The recto is blank; on the verso we read, in pencil: "These 2 sheets follow — Catch word — And compare them"

[59] a Cic. l 1 de Divinat.

[60] b Plin. l 1

[61] c Euseb. Chron.

[62] d cap. 20

[63] e apud Clemetem Strom l 1 p 302. a.

[Editorial Note 7] The following passage is found at the bottom of the page and written upside down.

[Editorial Note 8] The following passage is an unknown hand, and contains a partial copy of materials present elsewhere in this manuscript. The text has been sparsely edited/annotated by Newton. The unknown scribe has the habit to use multiple words as catchwords, but only repeats the first one on the next page. In order to accomodate for a correct reading the other words have been supplied.

[64] Strabo l. 5 p. 229. 230.

[65] Dionys. l. 2./

[66] Epistol. 104.

[67] Strabo Geog. l. 3. p. 158 a

[68] a Strabo lib. 17. p. 829 c. & p. 832, a

[69] a Strabo lib. 17. p. 829 c. & p. 832, a

[70] b Strabo ibid. 831. b, c

[71] c Apolog. p. 26.

[72] d lib. de Idolorum vanitati

[73] a De Pytheæ Oraculo

[74] c Plutarch in Solon.

[75] c Plutarch in Solon.

[76] d Apud Diog: Laert. in Solon p. 10.

[77] e. Nat. his. l. 7. c. 56.

[78] f. ibid. l. 5. c. 29.

[79] g cont. Ap. l. 1.

[80] i. Cont. Ap: l. 1:

[81] Dionis. l: 1 initio.

[82] m

[83] in Numa

[84] Plutarch in Solon. p. 151.

[85] aPlut: in Romulo &c Numa.

[86] b In Æn. VII. v. 678.

[87] Strabo Geog. l. 3. p. 158 a.

[88] a Strabo. lib 17 p 829 c & p 832 a.

[89] b Strabo. ib. p. 831 bc.

[90] c Apolog. p. 26.

[91] d lib. de Idolorū vanitate.

[92] f lib. 7. c. 56

[93] g lib. 15 p. 735

[94] h Homer. ιλ 9

[95] Diodor. l. 1. c. 1.

[96] Strabo l. 17. p. 805. Lucian Dial. in Imaginibus.

[97] a Vide Diodorū lib. 1. p. 24, 25, 26.

[98] lib. 2. p. 183.

[99] Chil. 2 Hist. 44

[100] a Apud Euseb. Chron gr.

[101] a 2 King. 24.2, 7. Dan. 1.1, 2. Ier. 46.2.

[102] b Expolemus apud Euseb. Prep. l. 9 c. 39.

[103] a 2 King. 24.2, 7. Dan. 1.1, 2. Ier. 46.2.

[104] c Sedar Olam Rabba.

[105] a 2 King. 24.2, 7. Dan. 1.1, 2. Ier. 46.2.

[106] b Expolemus apud Euseb. Prep. l. 9 c. 39.

[107] d Dan. 1.2.

[108] d Dan. 1.2.

[109] e Ier. 46.2.

[110] f 2 King. 24.7. Ioseph. Antiq. l. 10. c. 7.

[111] g Beros. apud Ioseph. Antiq. l 9 c. 11 & cont. Ap. l. 1

[112] 2 King. 25.8. Ier. 32.1.& 39.1, 2. & 52.5, 6, 12.

[113] a Berosus apud Ioseph. cont Ap. l. 1 p 1045.

[114] a Berosus apud Ioseph. cont Ap. l. 1 p 1045.

[115] a Berosus apud Ioseph. cont Ap. l. 1 p 1045.

[116] b Berosus apud Ioseph. cont Ap. l. 1 p 1045 & Canon Ptol.

[117] c Herod. l. 1

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