Catalogue Record: THEM00063

Expanded Latin translation of the first part of 'Two Notable Corruptions'

Author: Isaac Newton

Shelfmark: Yahuda Ms. 20

Location: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Sotheby Lot: SL267

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Maxwell' (i.e. Lymington) for £2.10s. See notes to Yahuda Ms. 19 for subsequent history.

Contents

f. 1 Title page: 'Sancti Iohannis Apostoli Vindiciæ contra Novatores et Falsarios.'

Subsidiary title page: 'Corruptelæ Duorum Celebrium in Sacris Literis Locorum Historica Narratio. Sive Dissertatio Critica et Historica de Ceberrimis [sic] duobus N T. Locis a priscis tam Græci quam Latini Nominis Scriptoribus attentatis olim, et corruptis. Vizt 1. Ep. Ioh. 5 etc., 1. Ep. Tim 3.16. In Epistola ad virum Nobilissimum Eruditissimumque perscripta.'

The text in fact deals only with 1 John 5:7. A note on this verse, in an unidentified hand (wrongly described as Newton's in the Sotheby catalogue), is loosely inserted after f. 1.

Notes

In the hand of Hopton Haynes, Newton's protégé at the Mint.

© 2013 The Newton Project

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

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