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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)DA61/3
TitleScrapbook of press cuttings kept by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson
Extent1 vol
Date1895-1903
Description Press cuttings collected by Agnes Smith Lewis. Most of the cuttings are either reports about her discovery of a Syriac version of the Gospels in St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, or reviews of her books. Some cuttings have been pasted into the index pages at the front of the volume: /T, article about ASL's discovery of the Syriac Gospels, 1893; /UV, cuttings on the same subject, 1895. The main part of the book includes:
pp /1-/111 cuttings re ASL's visits to St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai and reviews of her 'Some Pages of the Four Gospels retranscribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest', 1895-7;
/114-/120 reviews of 'Our Journey to Sinai' by Mrs RL Bensley, 1896-7;
/121-/125 reviews of ASL's 'Apocrypha Syriaca', 1902-3;
/126 article about ASL's discovery of the Syriac Gospels, 1895.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionBinding needs repairing

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