A “Rich and Unparalleled Collection”. The Afterlives of James Bruce’s Manuscripts and Drawings

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Hessayon, Ariel. 2023. A “Rich and Unparalleled Collection”. The Afterlives of James Bruce’s Manuscripts and Drawings. In: Ariel Hessayon; Annette Yoshiko Reed and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds. Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. 27 Leiden: Brill, pp. 258-275. ISBN 9789004529793 [Book Section]

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In the previous part of this essay I examined what befell the manuscripts and drawings that James Bruce brought back from his travels. Here I want to explore their fate after his death—particularly the two copies of Ethiopic Enoch in Britain (MSS. Bodl. Or. 531 and Bruce 74). Accordingly, my account begins immediately after Bruce’s demise and culminates with the Bodleian Library’s purchase of ninety-six volumes from his oriental collections in 1843. It should be added that what is presented here has not been done before in any detail.

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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004537514_012