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Scope and Contents ff.III + 66 + III; 198 x 155mm; 25 lines on paper, bound in hard covers.The paper has the standard BFBS watermark of this time, and is ruled in pencil. A later hand has foliated the volume 1-32 in pencil.Another part of the translation by William Tolfrey and Abraham de Thomas (see BFBS MS 395), with the assistance of two Buddhist monks, one of who later converted to Christianity. After Tolfrey’s death, when the end of Philemon had been reached and the work was resumed, this convert...

Scope and Contents ff.II + 177 + I; 212 x 170mm; text size 180 x 116mm; 21 lines bound in hard covers.Translation work into Pali was begun by William Tolfrey, Assistant to the Commission of Revenue, and Abraham de Thomas, a colleague, in 1813. Their work was based on William Carey’s Sanskrit version (see DM 1923). In 1817 Tolfrey died and work ceased until 1825, and in 1827 St. Mathew was published in a tentative edition and send to Burma for further examination. The New Testament appeared in 1835 (DM...