NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727.
Autograph Manuscript in Latin and Greek, being quotes from Eunapius and Procopius, later incorporated into his metaphysical writings, 2 pp, 26 lines in total, 152 x 70 mm, n.p., [1670s?], some browning, with two small adhesive mounts to corners.
EARLY NEWTON MANUSCRIPT containing source material for his works on prophecy. The first side containing a quotation from Procopius's Historia Arcana regarding the invasion of the Vandals into Africa, a portion of which appears in his unpublished manuscript "Tuba quarta." The second quoting from Eunapius in "Aedesio" from his Life of the Philosophers and Sophists, describing the delivery of the temples of Egypt to the monks, and showing the esteem with which the Martyrs were already held in Egypt. Newton would later make use of the episode in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel..., as well as in an unpublished manuscript "Drafts on the History of the Church."
![NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Autograph Manuscript in Latin and Greek, being quotes from Eunapius and Procopius, later incorporated into his metaphysical writings, 2 pp, 26 lines in total, 152 x 70 mm, n.p., [1670s?],](https://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2018-01/03/24718645-3-2.jpg&width=640&height=480&autosizefit=1 "NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Autograph Manuscript in Latin and Greek, being quotes from Eunapius and Procopius, later incorporated into his metaphysical writings, 2 pp, 26 lines in total, 152 x 70 mm, n.p., [1670s?],")
![NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Autograph Manuscript in Latin and Greek, being quotes from Eunapius and Procopius, later incorporated into his metaphysical writings, 2 pp, 26 lines in total, 152 x 70 mm, n.p., [1670s?],](https://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2018-01/03/24718645-3-1.jpg&width=150 "NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1727. Autograph Manuscript in Latin and Greek, being quotes from Eunapius and Procopius, later incorporated into his metaphysical writings, 2 pp, 26 lines in total, 152 x 70 mm, n.p., [1670s?],")