| Description | Scrapbook containing press cuttings and correspondence about James Rendel Harris's book 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon':
/1-/17 Press cuttings - reviews of The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, some in French, German, and Dutch; notices announcing its publication, 1910-1911;
/18-/19 Press cuttings - reviews of a lecture given by James Rendel Harris entitled 'Immortality in the Odes and Psalms of Solomon', 1911;
/20 Programme for a meeting of the Cambridge Theological Society, nd
/21 Article in German, nd
/22-/24, /26-/30 Press cuttings - reviews of James Rendel Harris's 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, and of editions in other languages, some French and German, 1911-1912
/25 Press cutting - review of 'The Doctrine of Immortality in the Odes of Solomon', by James Rendel Harris, 1912
/31-/32 Press cuttings - reviews of John Henry Bernard's [Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin; Bishop of Ossory] edition of the Odes, 1913;
/33 Press cutting - article about the Odes, 1911;
/34-/35 Press cuttings - letters to the Athenaeum from Margaret Dunlop Gibson [orientalist, biblical scholar, and traveller] giving Alphonse Mingana's [theologian and orientalist] view that the Odes may have an Ephesian origin, 1914;
/36 Press cutting - letter from James Rendel Harris giving more evidence for Mingana's theory, 1914;
/37 Press cutting - review of Leone Tondelli's [Italian orientalist] Italian edition of 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon', 1914, Italian;
/38-39 Press cutting - article about James Rendel Harris's donation of the manuscript of the Odes to John Rylands library, nd (two identical cuttings);
/40 Press cutting - article about the Odes by James Rendel Harris, 1914
/41 Press cutting - review of Leone Tondelli's translation of the Odes, 1914;
/42 Press cutting - review of the second edition of 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon', 1917;
/43 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Leone Tondelli, 1916, Italian;
/44 Letter to James Rendel Harris from John Wynne [architect and surveyor, Manchester] enclosing 'versification' of the 14th Ode of Solomon, nd;
/45-/51, /54-/60 Letters to James Rendel Harris from Henry Guppy [John Rylands Library] concerning printing and correcting the proofs of the facsimile edition of the Odes; suggesting that the text and translation be published separately, 1914-15
/52-/53 Loose, photographs of a Syriac manuscript
/61-/72 Letters mainly to James Rendel Harris, some to the Director of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, from Alphonse Mingana, discussing work on his edition of the Odes, 1916-1917
/73-/76 Letters to James Rendel Harris from Stephen Gaselee [Librarian, Magdalene College, Cambridge], advising on the Coptic text in the Odes, 1915-1916
/77 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Arthur S Way [Examiner in Latin, Central Welsh Board of Education], 1919
/78-/79 Two identical copies of the 'Quarterly Paper of the SPG Mission in Cawnpore', 1911
/80 Review of 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon,' 1920
/81 Postcard from Arent Jan Wensinck [Secretary to the Redaction of the Encyclopedia of Islam; Professor of Hebrew, then Arabic at University of Leiden], thanking James Rendel Harris for sending him a copy of 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon', 1920
/82 Cutting that briefly mentions the Odes, 1920s
/83 Note in German
/84-/86 Reviews of 'The Odes and Psalms of Solomon', 1920
/87 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Harry Ranston [Biblical scholar, clergyman in New Zealand], 1921
/88 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Alfred Ela, 1916
/89 Photograph of a Syriac manuscript, nd |