A New Edition of Newton’s History of the Early Church

Pablo Toribio Pérez (ed.) Isaac Newton, Historia ecclesiastica (de origine schismatico ecclesiae papisticae bicornis) (Nueva Roma 38) (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2013), pp. 632, € 45.00, 978–84–00–09736–3. This volume presents a critical edition of a lengthy Newtonian treatise (c. 50,000 words) on the early history of the Church, with annotations, a complete study of the sources, and a Spanish translation. Pablo Toribio Pérez claims that this work can be reconstructed from Ms Yahuda 1.5: ff. 78r-85r and a complex reordering of folios now in Ms Yahuda 12 and Ms Yahuda 19 (National Library of Israel). A diplomatic

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