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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.

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.

Comprises printed verses by members of the University on the marriage of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange.

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.

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.

No material is extant for the Cambridge University Zionist Society.

The notes are miscellaneous, chiefly Ethiopian, and occasionally Arabic or Hebrew with English renderings; part is also in cipher. Some of the leaves had previously contained anecdotes, etc., from classical and other sources, which remain legible under Castell's notes. See also MSS Dd.06.04, Dd.06.63 and Dd.12.15.

Miscellaneous notes, rhymes, poems, cabalistic formulae and other miscellanea, all by the same author.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.