Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, who donated his immense collection to Ireland when he passed in 1968. Works include Babylonian clay tablets, the Biblical Papyri and more than 250 different manuscripts ...

His collections of early papyrus for the bibles has been invaluable ... of Irish politicians and diplomats who cultivated Chester Beatty after the former mining magnate got tired of post-war ...

B is for Alfred Chester Beatty. There would be no glorious library ... They are just two of the 2,600 Arabic texts held by the library. P is for Papyrus, the chief writing material in the Greco ...

The manuscripts were written in Greek on papyri in Egypt and contain no illustrations ... It took Sir Alfred Chester Beatty the best part of a decade to gather all the manuscripts by contacting ...

1934 et seq.). For a time the oldest known gospel fragments were some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British ...