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 ...

Works include Babylonian clay tablets, the Biblical Papyri and more than 250 different manuscripts of the Quran. Widely known as one of the mote notable museums in Europe, the Chester Beatty ...

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 ...

Beatty returned time and again to Egypt, and it was there that he acquired his outstanding biblical papyri in the 1920s ... nation—and today housed in the Chester Beatty in the grounds of ...

Chester Beatty was born in New York in 1875 ... rare and beautiful objects including very early Biblical writing on papyrus (made out of the Egyptian plant of the same name), rare books and ...

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 ...

"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.