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Robert Lubbock Bensly: Notes on IV Esdras

Title	Robert Lubbock Bensly: Notes on IV Esdras
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.5954-5957
Creator	Bensly, Robert Lubbock, 1831-1893
Covering Dates	1850 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	4 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Robert Lubbock Bensly (1831-1893), orientalist; fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Notes and collations made for an intended edition of IV Esdras.

Received from M.R. James, 1905.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Robert Lubbock Bensly: Notes on IV Esdras, MS Add.5954-5957

Further information

R.L. Bensly's edition of IV Esdras was published as 'The Fourth Book of Ezra', with an introduction by M.R. James, in J. Armitage Robinson, ed., Texts and studies, vol. III, no. 2 (Cambridge, 1895).

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Theology

Bensly, Robert Lubbock (1831-1893) Hebrew, Syriac, and biblical scholar

Manuscripts/MS Add.5954-5957 contains:

MS Add.5954

Notebook in Latin containing collations of manuscripts of IV Esdras. 44 folios.
1 volume.

MS Add.5955

Notebook in Latin containing collations of manuscripts of IV Esdras. 44 folios. Fos 18-43 are blank.
1 volume.

MS Add.5956

Notebook in Greek, English and Latin, containing textual notes on chapters III-XIV arranged in order of the text. 115 folios.
1 volume.

MS Add.5957

Loose sheets in a binder, in French, Latin and English. 137 folios. There are miscellaneous transcripts, notes and drafts, including an annotated offprint of J.S. Wood, 'The Missing Fragments of IV Esdras', from the Journal of philology VII.
1 volume.