Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rarely that a hitherto unknown classical work comes to light, and for many years none has appeared so important in every way as Aristotle's "Treatise on the Constitution of Athens." The first copies of this recently discovered manuscript reached this country about a week ago, and in one of his courses Professor W. W. Goodwin has spoken of the value of the manuscript in a very interesting manner...
...been published under the authority of the British Museum from a papyrus which has recently come into the possession of the Museum through some Egyptian excavations. In general the manuscript is in good condition, though the last of the four rolls of which it consists is fragmentary. The writing, as is usual in such cases, is on the reverse of the papyrus, which originally held certain mercantile accounts dated 79 A. D. Allowing, therefore, reasonable time for these accounts to lose their importance before the other side would be used, we may fix the date of this text...
...Solon's reforms are explained in the new manuscript, and we find that his reduction of the coinage was much later than his abolition of debt, but that he did both. The nine archons were chosen by lot, as was not understood before, from forty men elected in tens by the four tribes; the division of the tribes equally into mountain, plain and seashore is now first known...
...late as 462; the whole history of this period must now be read in a new light. The account is continued down to Aristotle's own time, but the most of the remaining statements are either already known or unimportant. Professor Goodwin will give another talk on the manuscript on Saturday morning...
Then ensues an interesting account of Capt. John Smith's connection with Southwark, of some of the earliest manuscript maps of Capt. Smith and Gov. Winthrop which bear a relevance to early New England history. In conclusion, Mr. Winsor gives it as his opinion that John Harvard was not acquainted with Capt. Smith since at the time of the latter's death in 1631, Harvard was still a student at Cambridge. Smith's name had been for some time one of romantic interest, however, and there was much truth in the epitaph put above his grave-"the grim King...