Part of New Testament, 1800 - 1899
Scope and Contents
ff.II + 323 + II; 198 x 155mm; text size 167 x 145mm; 19 lines on ruled paper of the sort used in exercise books, bound in hard covers.
Contains Acts, Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians and Revelation. Foliated 1-237, ff.239-323 blank. f.238 recto states that the original MS was found in one of the synagogues of the Black Jews of Cochin, India, by the Rev. Claudius Buchanan in 1806.
This is a copy of Cambridge MS University Library MS Oo.1.16 described in a typed slip as ‘part of the N.T. rendered into Hebrew by a Jew of Travancore’. For a full account of the discovery of the original see Claudius Buchanan, ‘Christian researches in Asia, new edition’, 1840, pp. 230-231.
For the use of the MS in Bible translation see Crayden Edmunds in ‘Bible in the World’, June 1905, p. 184 and January 1907, p. 16.
Dates
- Creation: 1800 - 1899
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Language of Materials
Hebrew
Physical Description
paper
Date information
DateText: 19th century?.
Originator(s)
Bible, New Testament (part), Hebrew
Finding aid date
2012-01-19 15:14:17+00:00
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