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ff.886; 382 x 240mm; text size 269 x 185mm; 11 lines, unbound.
Collation: 1-3(24), 4(12), 5-7(24), 8-22(12), 23(6), 24-26(12), 27(6), 28-30(12), 32(10), 33-36(12), 37(10), 38-45(12), 46(10), 47-50(12), 51(6), 52-54(12), 55(14), 56-59(1), 60(10), 61(6), 62-68(12), 69(14), 70(12), 71(6).
Copy of BFBS MS 349 made by Edward Stallybrass, LMS. For further information see Editorial Sub-Committee Minutes vols. 3 & 4, 1849-1951.

Scope and Contents ff.1241; 365 x 225mm; text size 256 x 188mm; 11 lines, unbound.Collation: 1-18(12), 19(4), 20-24(12), 25(6), 26-34(12), 35(8), 36-39(12), 40, 41-43(12), 44(10) + 1 (after 6), 45(10), 46-48(12), 49(6), 50-54(12), 55(4), 56(10), 57-62, 63(6), 64-68(12), 69(4), 70-75(12), 76(4), 77-79(12), 80(14), 81(12), 82(8), 83(10), 84-113(12), 114(6).In 1833 George Borrow was sent by the BFBS to St. Petersburg to assist with the transcription of a MS of parts of the Old Testament, discovered by...

Scope and Contents Wooden slip, rounded at one of the short sides; 243 x 40mm; text size 210 x 30mm. Front side: two short lines at the top, a long line in the centre, four lines at the bottom. Verso side: three and a half lines. Written in a formal script on the front, and a cursive on the verso.A letter accompanying the MS reads: ‘My dear Kempt, this piece of wood is a message sent from one Tartar general to another. A colonel had to take it [this is false: the mistake probably derives from the fact...

Scope and Contents ff.194; 353 x 220mm; text size 285 x 170mm; 12 vertical lines. Unbound.Collation: 1-97(2). Written in Manchu character, in 2 hands.Translated by Stepan Vasilevitch Lipoftsoff, of the Asiatic Section of the Russian Foreign Office. Having lived in China for 20 years he had learned Chinese and Manchu at the National College of Peking. In 1821 the BFBS agreed with him to translate the New Testament. In 1822 a tentative edition of 550 copies of St. Matthew was printed at St....