Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Complutensian MSS

By H. S. (Morley's Hotel)

"E.M.B." (No. 25. p. 402.) will find full answers to his Queries, and more interesting information on the same subject, in a note in vol iv. p. 235. of Don Pedro Saban's Spanish translation of Prescott's *Ferdinand and Isabella*. Madrid, 1846. I am told by an American gentleman, who has seen the MSS. within a month in the library of the University of Madrid, wither they were removed from Alcala in 1837, that the Chaldaic and Hebrew manuscripts are all originals, and on parchment. The only MSS. of Zamora among them are 3 vols. in Latin, translated from the Hebrew. The Greek MSS., or some of the…

Topics: Manuscripts, Translation, Historical Documents

Locations: Madrid, Alcala, Vatican