DESCRIPTION OF THE REMAINING HEBREW MSS 113

- 16 pages (in Hebrew order) of biblical passages in Hebrew with partial interlinear Dutch translation. The remainder of the book is occupied by a “Glossarium Hebraico-Belgicum" with very few entrees. On a later fly-leaf: J. Willmet, 1806 No. 236. E. Scheidii, v. d. Apparatus ad Rudimenta Hebraica. De Jong, p. 7.

Baars No. 2 (see Introduction) Bible Genesis and Exodus, with Targum and Tafsir. Yemen, 18th cent.(?). Rebound in cardboard. Paper, 209 fols., 302 X 220 (260 x 170, varies), 26/28 lines. Notes and corrections by the scribe in the margins (e.g. fol. 183 b ), but also several longer (e.g. fols. l b -2 a , 45 a etc.) and shorter notes (e.g. fols. 47 a , 116 b , etc.) by other hands. Many of the notes are partly cut off. Yemenite square script, 18th cent. (?); Hebrew with sublinear vocalisation, according to the Tiberian tradition but incorrectly and incompletely; influenced by the super- linear system. Accentuated. The Aramaic has the superlinear vocalisation. Fols. 7-14 and 16-20 have been damaged with resultant loss of text. Fols. 206 and 207 are only partly preserved, now loose fragments. Fols. 35-39, 69-79, 118-124 have been restored; parts of the text on recto leaves are by a later hand (Targum here with sublinear vocalisation). Fols. 208 and 209 were also written by another later hand CTargum here with sublinear vocalisation). Hebrew text, Targum and Sa°adya’s Arabic translation (Tafsir) alternating verse by verse. The parashiyyot are divided into seven sections indicated by Hebrew letters in the margin. Now and then a qeri reading has been noted in the margin Contents : Fol. l a - 101 b : Gen. 1,16-end. 102 a - 209 a : Exodus. On fol. 101 b at the end of Genesis is written : ••• t»D f]0V '‘ia '] r|0V't -p*n (?)TS?0 T»0 *]0Y’ 'J *]0T 'J (t)a ,, n TVlo] Somewhat worn but solid copy. Some of the text is a bit faded. Bought from a dealer in Jerusalem 1962. De Boer no. 5.

Baars No. 3 Bible, Pentateuch with Targum, Tafsir and Rashi’s Commentary with excerpts from Yahya Bashiri’s pion nbsan. 19th cent.

Without covering boards. Two volumes, A and B.