Kennicott, Benjamin. The Ten Annual Accounts of the Collation of Hebrew MSS of the Old Testament, Begun in 1760 and Completed in 1769

Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783) an English Christian Hebraist, published his Vetus Testamentum (1776-1780) based on the variants he found in old Hebrew manuscripts. Though his collations were far from thorough, they did represent the first systematic examination of these Hebrew manuscripts, clearly demonstrating the practical uniformity of the Masoretic text. Preliminary to this work, he printed reports on the various manuscripts, “The Collation of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament.” His patrons included many of the titled eminences of Europe. See JE, Vol. VII, p. 467