In the outer margin in large letters : (?)mba (t)--p 1 ? TITO |3 pnS’ On the originally blank fol. 216 a is written : V'T nmax Y'3 'D1113 'IX and : V"T amax Y'3 nx Fol. 3 a written obhquely in the upper margin : mm ''Sint '1 T573 (•••) (initial words missing), meaning that the MS was once sold for 6 gold pieces. Fols. 2-216 are numbered in old square Hebrew characters; twice a number has been missed so at the end fol. 215 is numbered m. The remainder have been numbered partly in a more recent Hebrew hand (tmmb'n) and also in old Arabic (European) numerals (2 - 32). The first 8 leaves are damaged in varying degrees in the upper comer next to the spine; loss of text. Contents: fol. l a : Index, cursive script faded into illegibility. l b - 4 a : Index of the Selihot of fols. 48 a - 214 b (nos. 1 - 12,1 - 240 (öbl in the MS)); incipit of each is given together with its number in the MS. Written in square script, the last 21 in mashait script. The numbers of the leaves on which the Selihot occur have been added by a later hand. Several notes on the use of the Selihot have been added in the margin. 4 a : Index of the Selihot of fols. 9 a - 30 b (nos. 1 - 28), headed : ■p’® D’lmon nT neon nb’nnb written in a later cursive script. The numbers of the leaves on which the Selihot occur have been added by yet another hand. In the lower margin Selihot «* are listed by this hand. 4 b : i» 1 ?» max 5 b : •••mm xim 6 b : tmnan pa rmab earn mat pm aim ibn xix 7 a : mmi pin *paa px 7 b : nawna *r nmen 8 : Probably blank originally. Fol. 8 a now contains an index written in Ashkenazi cursive script listing the Selihot according to their use and giving their numbers in this MS (the first 10 also have a folio no.), classified : lst- 7th day, Erev Rosh ha-Shana ( n"“W), Zom Gedalya, 2nd - 5th day (after Z.G.), Erev Yom ha-Kippurim (a"’»). 8 b is blank. The following list of Selihot and Qinot in the MS has been arranged thus - : first the folio no., along with the number of the poem (if it has one; numbers between brackets are those written by a later hand), then the first words or the first line with a reference to I. Davidson’s Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry. If the poem could not be traced in the Thesaurus some characteristics are given instead (acrostic, number of stanzas, if applicable). Poems preceded by a Petiha or Haqdama are quoted from the first line of the poem proper. If there is any original or additional note, relevant to the poem as a whole, - whether as a heading (mostly rather inconspicuously written at the end of the preceding poem) or as a marginal or terminal note - it is given here. Variant readings and repeated additional notes referring to other poems in this MS have been omitted, as have the constantly repeated incipits of the fixed portions of the liturgy which appear in ever changing combinations at the end of each poem.