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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Ger 136

Constantin von Tischendorf papers relating to biblical studies

Overview

Papers of the German biblical critic Constantin von Tischendorf.

Dates

  • Creation: 1849-1928
  • Creation: Majority of material found in 1849-1874

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in Latin, Greek, German, and English.

Extent

.5 linear feet (1 box)

Portions of corrected proof sheets and offprints of works by Tischendorf, including his Monumenta sacra inedita and Synopsis evangelia, and editions of the Greek New Testament. Also contains autograph manuscripts in German describing Jerusalem and fragments of Die Anfectungen der Sinaibibel and an appendix to Novi Testamenti Vaticani. Also includes offprints of Caspar René Gregory's "Reformen an der Universität Leipzig" (1912) and James Hardy Ropes' and William H. P. Hatch's "The vulgate, Peshitto, Sahidic and Bohairic versions of Acts and the Greek manuscripts" (1928).

Biographical / Historical

Tischendorf was a German biblical critic. Caspar René Gregory was an American biblical scholar and professor at the University of Leipzig. James Hardy Ropes (A.B. 1889) served as Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard (1910-1933).

Physical Location

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Elinor Gregory Metcalf, Belmont, Mass.; received: 1940.

Title
Tischendorf, Constantin von, 1815-1874. Constantin von Tischendorf papers relating to biblical studies: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00290

Repository Details

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