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Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
page 36 of 65 (55%)
antes en gue estune en ella siete manuscritos biblicos en
aquellas dos lenguas[3], que son sin duda los mismos siete de
que hace mencion en la Vida del Cardenal Cisneros, Alfonso de
Castro, doctor téologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor
contemporaneo o de poco tiempo después, parte de los cuales
manuscritos, es a saber, los caldéos, son de letra de Alfonso de
Zamora, que es uno de los tres judíos conversos editores de la
Complutense."--_Opusculos Gramatico-Satiricos del Dr. D. Antonio
Puigblanch_, Londres [1832], p. 365.

If the Chaldee and Hebrew MSS. of the Complutensian Polyglot were at
Alcala in 1821, when were they removed to Madrid, and in what library at
Madrid are they now? The Greek MSS. are supposed to have been returned
to the Vatican Library. If the Chaldee MSS. are in the handwriting of
one of the editors, as stated by Puigblanch, they cannot be of much
value or authority. I shall add another Query:--Are they paper or
parchment?

E.M.B.

[Footnote 2: That the MSS. were destroyed.]

[Footnote 3: Hebrew and Chaldee.]


_Latin Names of Towns._--A correspondent who answered the Query as to
the "Latin Names of Towns" in titles, referred your readers to the
Supplement of Lemprière. I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have
obtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should
know that the information therein given must only be taken as
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