(32 '3 '3"n n"S ;813 3) DVH ’“WX D1pÖ3 s 62 b (82 * '3"n n"» ;th 2107 v) rVois nr dto nvsv: 64 a See also above for fols. 7Iff.

Hebr. 227 (Or. 6835) Sabbath Prayers, Yemen 16th - 17th cent. Original leather binding with some arabesque stamps. Paper, 21 fols., 116 X 85 (80 X 55), ca. 16 lines. Catchwords from page to page. Clear Yemenite mashait script, 16th - 17th cent. Tidy but very much used copy. All the prayers can be found in the printed edition of the Tikhlal with the commentary E? Hayyim (Jerusalem 1894 - 1898).

Hebr. 229 (Or. 6882) Rough draft of a letter to the Samaritans by J. J. Scaliger (autogr.). One paper leaf, 290 X 181/200. Folded and apparently sent as a letter. On verso Scaliger’s wax seal and an address : A Monsieur monsieur VAbbe del Bene A Engdesme Hebrew with some Arabic words and one sentence in Samaritan script. Some Arabic and Samaritan corrections by a later hand. The text contains questions on books, customs and historical matters. No addressee (except on verso, see above), no sender; the hand is Scaliger’s. The MS was transferred from the Dept, of Western MSS to the Dept, of Oriental MSS on 23 Aug. 1939. Nothing else is known about the provenance. For l'Abbé del Bene (1550-Autumn 1590) see s.v. Elbène, Pierre d': Dictionaire de bio- graphie frangaise, tome XII (1970) and P. Tamizey de Larroque, Lettres frangaises inédites de Joseph Scaliger (Agen - Paris 1879), Index. And see Secunda Scaligerana (Amsterdam 1740) s.v. Inscriptions. Three of his letters to Scaliger were published by Jacques de Reves, Epistres frangaises... it Monsieur Joseph Juste de la Scala (Harderwijk 1624) pp. 16-20, 199-201, 380-385. There is no evidence of special relations with the Samaritans. For Scaliger’s correspondence with the Samaritans see H. A. Hamaker in : Arch, voor Kerk. Gesch. 5 (1834) pp. 6f.

Hebr. 235-I (Or. 6950») Bible. Exodus. Fragment. Torn vellum fragment of a bifolium. Original breadth of one page : 225, two columns on each page, 318 (max.) x 65(max.) 14th cent. (?). Sefardi(?) square script.