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Title: '... As safe as in the British Museum' : Paul de Lagarde and his borrowing of manuscripts from the collection of Robert Curzon
Related: Journal of Egyptian archaeology, Vol. 89, p.231-238
Related: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3822500
Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
Date: 2003
Author/Creator: Behlmer, Heike
Description: The Coptic collection of Robert Curzon, fourteenth Baron Zouche (1810-73), now in the British Library, contains two manuscripts loaned to and published by the gifted but controversial German orientalist Paul de Lagarde (1827-91): fragments of a Sahidic psalter and an exegetical catena to the Gospels in Bohairic. Lagarde's papers, today in the possession of the University of Gottingen, where he taught oriental languages from 1869-91, throw fresh light on the history of this loan. His correspondence not only forces us to revise the chronology of the publication process, it also lays open how a German professor of limited financial means would resort to half-truths and stratagems in order to persuade a British nobleman to send his valuable Coptic manuscripts out of the country.
Description: 8 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Ancient History

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