One vellum leaf, 371 x 260 (317 x 215), written in three columns, each 55 wide, 41 lines; lines and columns ruled with a drypoint stylus. The leaf has been used as the cover for a book of 200 x 155, therefore, several lines in the middle of verso are illegible where the spine of this book has been. Traces of a shelfmark are visible. Complicated Ashkenazi mashait/cursive script, 13 - 14th cent.? First lines (§ 105): nsxba n»»n xb *]xin xb ps T'3 nrra mnrxb jnn® ïxb bs pi rbs p pib px naira Last lines (§ 107) :... xbto tmxjn nn iiiiiiiiiiu naann nasani® *nabnn are mx bax The text is sometimes at variance with the ed. Venice (Adelkind/Bomberg) a"B*l /1522.

Hebr. 277 (Or. 14242) Hebrew and Aramaic proverbs and sayings, collected and translated by Pieter Lambertsz Veeckemans (f 1603). Binding : Vellum on cardboard. Paper, 93 fols., 193 x 138; many blank leaves. Written, Latin and Hebrew, in a neat European academical hand; fols. l b and 2 a each have a line in Ashkenazi cursive. Fols. l b - 77 a : Hebrew and Aramaic sayings alphabetically arranged, often with Latin translation or explanation. According to the references in the margins taken from pa px (by Kalonymos bar Kalonymos 1),“Mabachar apeninim’ , (n''TlQTl “inaö=), twice from “7?. Achai Scheiltot" (fols. 44 a and 73 b ), once from “Maimö in n"n” (fol. 73 b ) and for the rest from Talmudic and Midrashic literature in general. Fols. 78 a - 80 b : Exemplar legis pronunciatum per Rabenu a-Kodesch b.m. In the margin : A numero ternario. Latin; all the quotations begin with tres, tria, ter, etc. Fol. 80 b : De numero quaternario; 4 lines only. Fols. 86 a - 88 a : Cabbalistica qucedam ex Nobelot Chochma and, according to the margin from Coach Adonai (both by Joseph Solomon del Medigo). The MS is bound with J. Drusius, Proverbia Ben Sirce... (Franeker 1597). In the lower margin of its title page is written : Ornatissimo viro Petro Veckemano gratitudinis ergo I. Drusius d. d. This dedication has led to the conclusion that our MS was written by Pieter Veeckemans. On him see J. G. C. A. Briel, “Biografische aantekeningen betreffende de Zuid Nederlandse onderwijskrachten in Noord Nederland 1570-1630”, Archief voor de Gesch. van de Katholieke Kerk in Ned. 15 (1973) pp.278 - 279.

Hebr. 278 (Or. 14251) a. Judeo-Italian Abecedary. b. Short poem, Hebrew.