38 SUPPLEMENT TO STEINSCHNEIDER’S CATALOGUE 1858

Warn. 59 (Or. 4797). 10 + (109 + 41) + 1 fols., 150 X 105 (94 x 64), 17 lines (MS I); 16/17 lines (MS II). Binding : blind tooled leather. Quires are indicated by a Latin letter in the lower margin of the first leaf of each quire : A-N: V(fly-leaf XI) 2VIII(32) VI(44) VIII(60) VI(72) VIII(88) VI(100) V-l(109) VT(121) 3V(fly-leaf XII). Catchwords as usual but sometimes last word(s) of a leaf are repeated on the next. Fol. 109 b has some text by a diff. hand, headed : “Dim QBL Warn. 60 (Or. 4798). (16) + 43 + 2 + (16) fols., 149 X 100 (98 X 75 or slightly more), 15/17 lines. Fol. XX b has in a hand similar to that of the MS 'U'm 'K (= 904 C.E.?), which seems improbable as a date for this MS. Fols. 1-30 have a Hebrew foliation by Steinschn. Warn. 62 (Or. 4800). 1 + 54 fols., 135 X 100 (75 X 48), 15 lines, 2 columns each 20 mm. wide. Binding : blind tooled leather on wooden boards. Quires are indicated by a Latin letter (in the same ink as the text) in the lower margin of the first leaf of each quire : A-G : V-l(8) 5IV(48) 111(54). Warn. 63 (Or. 4801). 172 + 2 fols., 137 X 105 (98 X 58), 21 lines. The quires are discernible by the outer and inner sheets which are vellum, whereas the rest is paper : 13VI(156) 157(upside down) VI(169) III-1 (fly-leaf IV). Fol. 157 is out of place and should be placed in the last quire between fols. 169 and 170, to judge from the catchwords; the catchwords of fols. 156 and 158 correspond. Warn. 64 (Or. 4802). 2 + 74 + 2 fols., 147 X 103 (90 X 67), 21 lines. Fol. II b has some notes by Steinschn. including an index of the contents of this MS and the remark : Opus ultimum primus recognovi mense Julio A. 1854 (Steinschneider). Warn. 65 (Or. 645). 230 X 165 approximately. Size of written space varies but mostly whole pages are filled with writing. Quires and leaves are now loose. The text of A, C, D and E is written in European fashion with the spine of the left; the leaves, however, are numbered in Hebrew fashion! (Steinschn. p. 280 : “a sinistra ad dextram scriptae”.) The present order of the leaves is : A : Fols. 172-157, 263-244, 267-239, 236, 287-277, 235. B: Fols. 38, 40-57, 290-291, 58-109. Hebrew order. Leaves may be missing at the the beginning; slight disorder. C: 303-209 (partly with translation), 298 (no Hebrew text), 297 b -296 (partly with translation as stated by Steinschn.), VII blank leaves. D : The text of Isaiah : Fols. 191M73, 200-197, 207, 156-111 (-Cap. 42); 206, 217-208, 205, 16-1 (Cap. 57-66).