huntington, robert (1637-1701), British Orientalist. He went to the Levant in 1671 and spent more than ten years there. From Aleppo, he visited Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt. In Egypt he bought rare manuscripts, among which were some Coptic texts. These manuscripts eventually made their way into the collections of Merton College and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Huntington, Robert
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Courtney, W. P. "Huntington, Robert." In Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 10, pp. 308-309. Oxford, 1949-1950. MARTIN KRAUSE