Two paper leaves, 203 x 147. Italian cursive script, 16th - 17th cent.(?) Text on rectos only. a. Headed: •v’bD'xn jwVa DH'aVrtV tbV7 ira ’V?3 Begins: mbeiirx px 'bna noiiD y «jbx (”chi porta barili en espalda” i.e. which bears a barrel on its shoulder). b. Headed: imrs "in’? wwra anna bw tb Begins: wbsn raba "ibx B’xn ransn vn •ne D’bsix Taken from the fly-leaves of Befiirtat Olam, Ferrara 1551 (press mark 876 D 5). This binding does not seem to be original. a. Privately printed by the author of this Catalogue, Amersfoort 1976.

Hebr. 284 (Or. 14360) Maimonides, Mishne Tora, hilkhot shehita. Selihot. Binding: leather, original. Paper, 81 fols., 110 X 75 (ca. 83 X 60), 13/16 lines. Yemenite square script, 17th cent.; after fol. 62 text partly vocalised with superlinear vocalisation. An original Hebrew foliation : fol. 1-41 : XD"X; 51-58 : i-ia; 59 : m; 62 : w; 63-65 : 68-70 : trm. (NB.: This disorder in the original foliation does not corres pond to any disorder in the written text, but see fol. 59 a where the first part of the text is discarded.) Irregular running titles (nDVlB nttbfl or number of the pereq\ on fols. 36 and 39 o'bnn (0; 63ff: mrrbo). Contents: fol. l a : V't wa ’db ww xvobna n’pna tm? mix ainab b’nnx pm dm 60 b : End (indicated by the abbreviations B"in3 T'a» '"ana V”l3). Recipee for a charm (napi Mi np-abn (rlnn'ni 1 ? mn •••)• 61 b : Similar text (••rprtVa XB 1 DX ST 1 ? nxin DX •••)• 62: Blank. 63 a : mrrbo DTip D’pioan V?X 1B1X1 VrinB (References to I. Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry). 64 a : (1856 3) Dm3X ’Hbx DM Headed: V"xt •nbn mirr '1 prn p Vipbx ,4 in3 nro' on 65 b : (1309 b) pV» 'Dl^B 66 b : (3184') «jbx 1 ? lbsr 67 b : (2056 ') nnxBi nrr 69 b : (2086 ’) rvrxï VT