Beinecke MS 544
(Formerly P.Yale inv. 2183)
Bible.  Greek. O.T. I and II Samuel.  Fragment of the Septuagint.  Greek
manuscript.  Greek Near East.  Early 4th century.  Vellum.  2 conjugate folios
(212 x 175 mm.)  2 columns, 43 lines.  Uncial script.  Several marginal
corrections.  Torn on all sides and lacking half of second column of first
folio and the greater part of the second folio.

Side I: I Samuel XXV.7-20; I Samuel XXXI.12-13, II Samuel I.1 and 6-7.

Side 2: I Samuel XXIV.11-XXV.7; II Samuel I.17-II.4.

Comments:  This is the oldest vellum manuscript in the collection.

From the collection of Mark Lansburgh.  Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1965.

Bibliography: T.E. Marston, "A Collection of early Manuscript Leaves," Yale
University Library Gazette, XL (1965).