Hebr. 284 in 1975 on a German auction; and the Baars collection mentioned above. This market is still open, but the material involved is of decreasing importance. It was, however, the source of a voluminous Mah?or (Hebr. 225-1), copied from a very scarce, early 17th century printed book. The binding of this manuscript yielded fragments from over thirteeen other manuscripts (Hebr. 225-11, 244). Four of these fragments are from the Mishne Tora of Maimonides, proving yet again the popularity of this work and its importance to the Jews in Yemen 55 . In addition to two other prayer-books (Hebr. 226, 227), there is a Bible fragment (Hebr. 248) and a copy of the Diwan (Hebr. 250), the popular song-book of the Jews in Yemen. This copy contains, in particular, many songs in Arabic. There are, finally, some manuscripts in the Western Manuscripts Department (Bibliotheca Publica Grceca and Bibliotheca Publica Latina) which must not be over looked in any treatment of the Library’s Hebrew manuscripts and are, therefore, briefly described in the catalogue. They are a polyglot Psalter (BPG 49 s ) including an interesting Hebrew text and two Hebrew letters to Christian scholars (BPL 246 and 885).

55. Jacob Sappir, Even Sappir (Lyck 1866), fol. 53. Cp. also Hebr. 284 containing the rules of ritual slaughtering from the Mishne Tora.