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Phillipps recorded in an early catalogue that his collection was instigated by reading various accounts of the destruction of valuable manuscripts. [3] Such was his devotion that he acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts, arguably the largest collection a single individual has created, and coined the term "vello-maniac" [ 4 ...
It is one of very few early manuscripts with Old Syriac readings. [3] The manuscript was acquired by the Royal Library in Berlin in 1865. It was dated by Sachau to the end of the 5th century or the beginning of the 6th century. [1] The text of the codex was published by G. H. Gwilliam in 1901. A. Allgeier re-examined the collection of the codex ...
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It was sold to London dealers Payne and Foss, who subsequently sold it to manuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, who owned around 60,000 manuscripts before he died. [6] When Phillipps died, his collection went to his daughter, and then to his grandson, who eventually began selling it off in order to pay off debts. [6]
Strengths of his collection included first editions of the classics; works produced by important early presses, and notably an almost complete collection of Aldine editions; and many Bibles. [8] Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) collected 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts. [9]
This manuscript is recorded in a 1506 catalogue of Exeter Cathedral's manuscripts. It belonged to John Parker, son of Matthew Parker; John Parker gave it to Richard Cosen in 1585. In 1629 it came into the hands of Sir James Balfour, and from there went to the Edinburgh Faculty of Advocates when the faculty acquired Balfour's manuscript collection.
Many of these manuscripts are unique or early attestations of important Christian works, such as The Vision of Dorotheus or the Biblical 𝔓 75, described by the Bodmer Foundation (French: Fondation Bodmer) as "highly important for the history of early Christianity", alongside several classical or Egyptological works, such as the works of ...
Phillipps invited Halliwell to stay at his estate, Middle Hill. [6] There Halliwell met Phillipps's daughter, Henrietta, to whom he soon proposed marriage. However, also around this time, Halliwell was accused of stealing manuscripts from Trinity College, Cambridge. Although no prosecution was brought, Phillipps's suspicions were aroused and he ...