Description compiled by Robert Steiner, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives.
Robert Lubbock Bensly (1831-1893), orientalist; fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Notes and collations made by R.L. Bensly for his intended edition of IV Esdras.
MS.Add.5954: Notebook in Latin containing collations of manuscripts of IV Esdras, 44 folios.
MS.Add.5955: Notebook in Latin containing collations of manuscripts of IV Esdras, 44 folios. Fos 18-43 are blank.
MS.Add.5956: Notebook in Greek, English and Latin, containing textual notes on chapters III-XIV arranged in order of the text, 115 folios.
MS.Add.5957: Loose sheets in a binder, in French, Latin and English, 137 folios. There are miscellaneous transcripts, notes and drafts, including an annotated offprint of J.S. Wood, 'The Missing Fragments of IV Esdras', from the
Received from M.R. James, 1905.
Open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Additional Manuscripts Catalogue.
R.L. Bensly's edition of IV Esdras was published as 'The Fourth Book of Ezra', with an introduction by M.R. James, in J. Armitage Robinson, ed.,