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Album Amicorum of Abraham Ortelius, c. 1574-1598
The Album comprises contributions (signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, engravings, coats of arms) to Ortelius from a distinguished and international group of his friends.
Amulet to protect a woman in childbirth, 1600 - 1699
Annotationes Criticae in Ecclesiasten., 1653 - 1655
Titled, as 454, by Charles Beaumont.
A loose bifolium (285 × 185mm) inserted between pp. 222 and 223 with additional notes on C.10:4.
Annotationes criticae in Pentateuchum., 1650 - 1690
Found loose at end: 49a-e.
Browne's Persian Journals, 1887-08 - 1888-10
Notebooks and diaries compiled as part of Browne's trip to Persia, 1887-1888.
Commonplaces, etc.,, 1630 - 1680
Vestigial Hebrew vocabulary, 2 bifolia (295 x 185mm);
notes on Hebrew prosody, 2 bifolia (285 x 185mm);
commonplaces, Aes - Uxor, 12 gatherings (fo, in 6s, 310 x 200 mm), stitched;
commonplaces, Abstinentia - Zeno; with index; c. 8 cms of bifolia/gatherings (300-310 x 200mm), unstitched. The commonplaces are largely from patristic sources.
Concordance of proper names in the Hebrew Bible, 1870 - 1890
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.
Cutting of a review of 'Heavenly Clockwork' published in 'Koroth', (Israel), 1960-06
The cutting is accompanied by a Cambridge University Press compliments slip.
E. G. Browne's diaries 1 and 5, 1887-08 - 1888-10-10
Esther, 1700 - 1799
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.
Gratulatio academiae Cantabrigiensis auspicatissimas Gulielmi Principis Auraci et Annae Georgii II Magna Britanniae Regis filiae natu maxime nuptias celebrantis (1733), 1733
Comprises printed verses by members of the University on the marriage of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange.
Halakhot Gedolot (incomplete), 1400 - 1499
Isaiah (incomplete), 1000 - 1099
Jeremiah 3(20)-19(14), 1700 - 1799
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.
Jerusalem: Stained glass windows by Marc Chagall at the Hadassah Hebrew University, c.1966-1976
Colour postcard with the place name printed on the back. Sent to Joseph and Dorothy Needham from three people: Rivka Ashbel and two others with signatures difficult to read.
Letters from Beatrice Lanzkron (nee Kahn) to RFK, 1947 - 1989
15 autograph letters signed. The file also includes 1 autograph letter signed in Hebrew from an unknown author, undated, and an undated photograph of unidentified boy.
Masoretic notes, 1898
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.
Menu card and toast list for the fiftieth anniversary dinner, held 13 September 1985; together with a liturgy of berakhah (blessings) to be made over the meal, 1985-09-13
No material is extant for the Cambridge University Zionist Society.
Notebook 2, 1887-08
Manuscript notebook with notes in preparation for Browne's journey to Persia including expenses, lists of requisites, lists of names, places and their distances from each other, timetables, drawings, poetry and various miscellaneous notes and sketches made at different times.
Notebook of Edmund Castell, Mid to late seventeenth century
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.
Notebooks, 1623 - 1635
Miscellaneous notes, rhymes, poems, cabalistic formulae and other miscellanea, all by the same author.
Notes on early printed Hebrew editions of the Bible, 1897
Notes on Ephesians
Notes on Genesis, 1640s
Notes on Hebrews 1 and Peter 7
Notes on Hebrews 1 and the first epistle of Peter