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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We might also compare the famous Chester Beatty papyrus, papyrus 45, which contains chapters 10 and 11, and the same chapters of papyrus 66 with the text of Nestle. Nestle’s text is universally ...

These early texts give a window into the pre-Christian and then later the Christian community. Photo: Chester Beatty Library A collection of ancient fragile manuscripts are at the heart of a new ...

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 ...

"When Chester Beatty acquired this papyrus material it was absolutely celebrated. "It appeared on the front page of The Times in 1931 and the story was syndicated around the world," added Ms Croke.

The Chester Beatty, Dublin has launched a new exhibition, Heavenly Flowers: The Hamilton Field Book of Hours, concentrating on an exquisite fifteenth-century manuscript from their collection ...