- Theodore Cressy Skeat
Theodore Cressy Skeat (
15 February 1907 -25 June 2003 ) was Librarian at theBritish Library , where he worked as Assistant Keeper (from 1931), Deputy Keeper (from 1948), and Keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian (from 1961 to 1972) after studies in Cambridge and a spell at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. His work coincided with two important acquisitions by the Trustees of the aforementioned institution, namely the "Codex Sinaiticus " and the apocryphal Gospel "Egerton 2 Papyrus" (a.k.a. the "Egerton Gospel "). He made a name for himself with important contributions to palaeography, papyrology, and codicology, particularly - but not only - in relation to these two acquisitions. He was the grandson of noted philologistWalter William Skeat .Obituaries
*J. Keith Elliott, 'Theodore Cressy Skeat', "TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism", 2003. < [http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol08/Skeat2003obit.html] >
*J. Keith Elliott, 'Obituary: T. C. Skeat', The Independent, July 8, 2003. < [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200307/ai_n12699757] >
*Dorothy J. Thompson, 'In memoriam Theodore Cressy SKEAT', 2004. < [http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/aip/skeat.htm] >Select bibliography
* H.I. Bell, and T.C. Skeat (eds.), "Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and other early Christian papyri", London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1935.
* H.J.M. Milne, and T.C. Skeat, "Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus", London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1938.
* C.H. Roberts, and T.C. Skeat, "The Birth of the Codex, Oxford University Press", New York – Cambridge 1983.
* T.C. Skeat, "The collected Biblical writings of T.C. Skeat", ed. J.K. Elliott, Supplements to Novum Testamentum 113, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004.
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