Catalogue Record: THEM00008

Twelve articles on religion

Author: Isaac Newton

Shelfmark: Keynes Ms. 8

Location: King's College, Cambridge, UK

Sotheby Lot: SL252

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Ulysses' (probably the London bookseller Jacob Schwartz) for £21, and offered to Keynes by Bertram Rota of Bodley House, Vigo St., London W1 on 5 March 1938 for £17.10s.. On 9 April Keynes offered Rota £20 for lots 184 (now Keynes Ms. 118) and 252 (this one), which Rota accepted on behalf of his (unspecified) client on 12 April.

Printed in Brewster (1855), 2: 349-50 and McLachlan, Theological Manuscripts, 56-7.

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Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

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