Platt, Thomas Pell (Bibliography)

(1) Published Sources (except Amharic Bible texts)

1.1 English

Platt, Thomas Pell. A Catalogue of the Ethiopic Biblical Manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris, and in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. London 1823. [Digitale-Sammlungen]

  • Scanned copy with Platt’s designation for Mr [Philipp Albert] Stapfer (Paris)

—. Bible society: A letter to Dr. Wardlaw, of Glasgow. With preface and notes by Dr. Wardlaw. Glasgow: Wardlaw and Cunninghame, 1827.

—. Bible Society: A second letter to Dr. Wardlaw, of Glasgow, containing explanations of former statements, in reply to an article in the Edinburgh Christian Instructor for February. With a preface by Dr. Wardlaw. Glasgow: Wardlaw and Cunninghame, 1827. [Google Books]

—. Facts respecting certain versions of Holy Scripture published by the British & Foreign Bible Society: In reply to an article in the seventy-first number of the Quarterly review. 2nd edition. London: [s.n.], 1827. [Google Books]

—. The Literal Interpretation of Scripture Enforced. London: R. Watts, 1831. [Google Books]

—. Reply to a Letter from the Rev. A. Brandram. London: Seeley and Sons, 1831. [Google Books]

—. A Letter to the Rev. E.B. Pusey, D.D. on Certain Defects, Doctrinal and Practical in a Popular System of Theology: And on the Tracts for the Times, So Far as Opposed to Them. London: J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1840. [Google Books]

1.2 Amharic

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1.3 Ge’ez

_ _ _ / Evangelia Sancta aethiopice: Ad codicum manuscriptorum fide edidit Thomas Pell Platt. [Four Gospels]. London: R. Watts [at the expense of the British & Foreign Bible Society], 1826. [Google Books]

_ _ _ / Novum Testamentum Domini Nostri et Servatoris Jesu Christi aethiopice: Ad codicum manuscriptorum fide edidit Thomas Pell Platt. [New Testament]. London: R. Watts, 1830. [Digitale-Sammlungen]

Platt, Thomas Pell (ed. and tr.). The Ethiopic Didascalia: Or, the Ethiopic Version of the Apostolic Constitutions, Received in the Church of Abyssinia; with an English translation. [Ge’ez with English translation.]. London: R. Bentley, 1834. [Digitale-Sammlungen]

  • The scanned copy was probably given to the library by Platt during his stay in Munich in 1840.
1.4 Syriac

Lee, Samuel (and Thomas Pell Platt), ed. _ _ _ / Psalterium Syriacè. London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1825. [Google Books]

Platt, Thomas Pell, ed. Kethābhā dh-Ewangelīyōn ḳaddīshā. [The Four Gospels in Syriac]. London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1829. [Google Books]

(2) Unpublished Sources

2.1 Archives of the British & Foreign Bible Society, Cambridge Univ. Library

“Account of all the versions and translations printed or executed at the charge of this Society” (alias “Platt’s History of Translations”), 1827-29 (additions: 1830-46).

  • Written at the request of the General Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society (Febr. 1827), and presented to the Library sub-Committee (Aug. 1829):

Collations of Ge’ez manuscripts and corrections of Abba Abraham’s (alias Abu Rumi’s) Amharic translation of the Gospel of John, 1832-33

  • Platt used Walton’s Polyglott Bible, among others, and sent his collations and proposed corrections with annexed letters to William Jewett (then Head of the BFBS translation department).
    Ref. Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 19

Collations of Ge’ez manuscripts of the Gospel of John and corrections of Abba Abraham’s Amharic translation of the Psalter, 1830, resp. 1832-33

  • These collations and proposed corrections were also sent to William Jewett. Ref. Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 196
2.2 Archives of the Royal Asiatic Society

Collation and translation of Ge’ez manuscripts (submitted in 1826):

(3) Secondary literature

Browne, George. The History of the British and Foreign Bible Society: From its Institution in 1804, to the Close of its Jubilee in 1854. 2 vols. London: Society’s House, 1859. [Digitale-Sammlungen: vol. 1 (Europe); vol. 2 (i.a., Abyssinia)]

Norgate, G. le G., rev. Gerald Law. “Platt, Thomas Pell (1798-1852)”, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 44, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and B. Harrision, p. 542. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.

Zuurmond, Rochus. “Platt, Thomas Pell”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 4, ed. S. Uhlig in cooperation with A. Bausi, p. 160‒61. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.

(4) Cross-references

» Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Excerpts, 1805-50