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Scope and Contents A Hebrew manuscript, apparently dating from the 17th century, consisting of f.1, 225 x 84mm; text size 215 x 80mm; 30 lines on parchment. The text is complete and is an amulet to pretect a woman in childbirth, containing prayers and Scriptural verses. Lines 5 & 6 are written in a kabbalistic alphabet, or "alphabet of the angels". The MS probably originated from the Near East, possibly the Yemen.For further reading see T. Schrire, "Hebrew Amulets", London:...

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ff.VIII + 417 + VIII; c.435 x 275mm; text size c.390 x 260mm; 2 columns of 54 lines on ruled azure paper bound in hard covers.
The volume is foliated 1-412 with ff.413-417 blank.
Compiled by Christian David Ginsburg as part of his ‘Introduction to the Massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible’, London: Trinitarian Bible Society, 1897. See also BFBS MSS 244 and 245.

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Scroll, each sheet 535 x 225mm; 3 columns on each sheet, each of 138 x 113mm; 11 lines on parchment.
Of South European origin, there are no pictures in this manuscript which demonstrates that it was prepared for use in a synagogue.

Scope and Contents f.1; 347 x 280mm; text size 260 x 193mm; 39 lines on parchment ruled by hard point in Ashkenazi script.Part of the compendium of Jewish law, called Halokhot Gedolot, attributed by some scholars to Simeon Kayyara, who lived in Babylonia (present Iraq) in the ninth or early tenth century. It comes from the section Arayot which deals with the forbidden degrees of marriage etc., and is to be found on folios 53b-54b of the edition printed in Venice in 1548. This fragment in Ashkenazi script...

Scope and Contents ff.16; 378 x 290mm, except gatherings 3-4(2) which have been trimmed to 300 x 273mm; text size 262 x 185mm; 3-4(2) are 255 x 189mm; two columns of 29 lines on parchment. Loose leaves but once bound into codex form.Collation: 1(4), 2(8), 3-4(2). Ruled by hard point with a narrower ruling on top and lower margins for the masorah which, however, was not written. f.6 recto has a short marginal note, later than the main text and the line is pointed by the person who wrote the marginal...

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3 sheets, part of a complete scroll, each sheet c.500/550 x 405mm; 4 columns on each sheet of c.100/110 x 300mm; 48 lines on parchment ruled by hard point.
Ashkenazim origin.

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ff.202 + 10 later additions; 330 x 205mm; text size 283 x 140mm; 34 lines on ruled exercise paper, unbound.
The packet containing this manuscript is endorsed "Dr. Stephen’s Masoretic Notes" and the preface contained in the supplementary leaves refers to a Hebrew Bible published by the BFBS in 1898. This does not, however, appear in Darlow & Moule.

Scope and Contents ff.II + 180 + I; 264 x 220mm; text size 232 x 203mm; 26 lines on ruled exercise book paper bound in hard covers.Contents include notes on the following edition:1482 Pentateuch, Bologna (DM 5072)1487 Hagiographa, Naples (DM 5074)1491 Old Testament, Naples? Soncino? (DM 5076)1494 Old Testament, Brescia, Soncino (DM 5078)Beginning on f.76 are notes on BL Add. MSS. 21 & 161. ff.1, 43-75, 79-180 are blank.Notes compiled by Christian David Ginsburg for his...

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f.1; 473 x 330mm; text in three columns each of 470 x 90mm; 51 lines; on leather.
Probably originating from the Yemen.

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2 sheets sewn together, part of a larger scroll; each sheet 273 x 273mm; text size 240 x 210mm; 2 columns on each sheet, each of 273 x 107mm; 39 lines on parchment; ruled by hard point.
Of Southern European origin.

Scope and Contents ff.II + 323 + II; 198 x 155mm; text size 167 x 145mm; 19 lines on ruled paper of the sort used in exercise books, bound in hard covers.Contains Acts, Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians and Revelation. Foliated 1-237, ff.239-323 blank. f.238 recto states that the original MS was found in one of the synagogues of the Black Jews of Cochin, India, by the Rev. Claudius Buchanan in 1806.This is a copy of Cambridge MS University Library MS Oo.1.16 described in a typed...

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ff.2; 278 x 185mm; text size 230 x 160mm; 49 lines, ruled by hard point.
Written in an Ashkenazi hand. The MS could have originated in Germany or Northern France.
Part of the commentary of Rashi (see BFBS MS 501) on the Tractate Baba Metsia of the Babylonian Talmud. It is very nearly identical with the standard printed edition, ff.4 verso-8 recto.

Scope and Contents f.1; 315 x 225mm; text size 210 x 135mm; 29/30 lines on parchment ruled by hard point.Written in a rather light ink in an Italian, Southern French or even Spanish rabbinic hand.Part of the commentary of Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes, known generally as Rashi (1040-1105), to the Tractate Bekhorot of the Babylonian Talmud. The fragment is similar but not identical to ff.32 verso-33 verso of the standard printed edition, for it contains additional materials and two passages which...

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1 scroll 245mm high, ruled by hard point. This is a genizah roll and therefore difficult to read. Not Ashkenazim.

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Scroll; height of leaf 185mm; each sheet has 3 to 5 columns, each of 130 x 42mm; 42 lines on parchment ruled by hard point.
Written in a very small, accurate hand.
This MS is of Ashkenazim origin.

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Scroll, each sheet 613 x 875mm; 54 lines on leather.
The handwriting is similar to BFBS MS 231, e.g. the final tsaddi and is probably also of Yemeni origin.

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Scroll, sheet 432 x 735mm; each column 318 x 87mm; 42 lines on parchment ruled by hard point; with a green scroll case.
Of North African - or possibly Yemeni - origin.

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Scroll, each sheet 610 x 507mm; each column 348 x 150mm; 42 lines on ‘red’ vellum; ruled with red ink; with a black leather protecting case.
Of Western African origin, this manuscript has a slip inside bearing the number 1.

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Scroll, each sheet 645 x 743mm; each column 510 x 143mm; 45 lines on parchment ruled in red ink.
The scroll has been written by more than one scribe.
Of Syrian origin.

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A scroll, each sheet 865 x 680mm; each column is 525 x 224mm; 51 lines on leather, ruled by hard point.
A slip inside the scroll reads: "Number '75'. This manuscript has been examined by Dr. Neubayer of the Bodleian Library Oxford, and by Dr. Ginsburg. The both stated that it is from Yemen, and assign it to the XIVth century".

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Scroll, each sheet 538 x 730mm; 4 columns per sheet each of 420 x 131mm; 42 lines on parchment.
The handwriting displays a curious gimel. The MS is of South-east European origin.

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ff.III +393 + III; 330 x 205mm; text size 287 x 190mm; 2 columns each of 33 lines on ruled exercise book paper, bound in hard covers.
The volume is foliated from f.8, 1-338.
Collated by Christian David Ginsburg (see BFBS MS 243). Printed edition ‘The Old Testament: a Massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew text, with an apparatus of variant readings...’, London: Trinitarian Bible Society, 1894. (DM 5253).

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Suggestions of Moses Reichersohn, Wilna.

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Suggestions from I. Isar Cohn, Leopold Grossberger, Zebi Herschensohn (Iechiel Lichtenstein), David Kaufman, Max Kreukel, Alexander Langbank, and Dr. Süskind.