G. On rules for the writing of rolls destined for8.vnagogue UMI Joel Miiller, Masechet Sojerim [cnnc nr;:j], Der talmud. Traclal der Schreibcr, eine L'inteit. in das Studium der altheb. GrapUih, der Masora und der alt'iild. Liturijie^ Leipzig, 1878 ; f J. G. Chr. Adler, Judceorum codicil mcri rits scribendi leges, Hamburg, 1779 (chs. L - T. o« 'lO DO] ; I Baph. Kuchbeim,
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Septem tibri Tahnwlici parfi H Urosoti/mitani, Frankfurt ft. M., ISftl. pp. 1-11 '.Sepher torah ' ; Moses ^laiinonides. Hit- khoth UphiiUn umezuzah ux^yher torah (sep.inite impre»sion of ctis. viL-x. in Jac Uenr. van BashuyseD, Obicrvattoiics nacne, Frankfurt, 1708] ; I Leop. Low, Graphiache licquisUen nnd Erzeugni»$e bei den Juden, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1870-71 ; :, Salomo Qanzfried, DiiU kethibath ^epher torah, etc., Unjr^-ar, 1800 ; || A. O. Waehncr, Antiquitates Ebrieorumt L, UcittiugeD, 1743, pp. 187-2U8.
II. Catalogues of important coUectioni of MSS. — Berlin : M. Steinschneider, /)«* I'erzfichnisi der heb. Uand^chri/lrn, 1878 (149 pp.) and 1S'J7 (172 pp.), 4». I Cambridge: S. M. Schiller- Szinefisy, Catahxjue o/ the Iteb, MSS preserceU in the Cnu-ertiUy Lilirarii, i. 1S70 (248 pp.). I Florence : A. M. BiBcioni, Ilil,iio- thecre Ebraicir Gr>rcie Ftarentina . . . Cataiogus, 1757. I London, British .Museum : Oinsburg, Introduction, pp. Hj&- 726 (describes 49 M.SS collated for bis edition of the OT] ; U. Uoerning. Description and Collation of six Karaite iISS of portions of the Ileb. liihle in Arabic characters, London, 1S89 (68 pp. and 42 facsimiles). P Oxford : Ad. Neubauer, Catalogue of tlie Ueb. iISS in ttte Bodleian Library, Oxford, 18SB (11C8 coU. and 40 facsimiles). An Appendix by Ad. Neubuuerand \. K. Cowley is in the press. II Paraia : J/55 codices hebraici biblioth, J. B. de Rossi, Parma, 1803, 3 vols. I St. Petersburg: A. Harkavy und H. L. Strack, Catalog der heb. Bibelhandsciiriften der kaiserL 6ffenU. Bibliotftek zu St, Petersburg/, Leipzig', 1876 (296 pp.). I Itome : Bibliotheca Apostoliciv Vaticanm codicum inanu scriptorum Catalogus . . . Steph. Evod, Assemanua et Jos. Sim. Assemanus . . . receoBuerunt, vol. L, Kom, 17.'i6, foL (Ueb. and Sam. MSS). [| Turin : B. Peyron, Codices hebraici . . , in Taurinensi Ath''n(ro, 18S0. I Vienna: A. Krafft und S. Deutsch, Die handichri/U. heb. Werke der K. E. Uofbibliothek tu Wien, 1847, 4».
J. On the MS^ collated for Kennicott'a work (above, 1. D): Dissertatw generaiis in VT Heb. . . . auctore B. KcmiicotL Uecudi curavit et notas adiecit P. J. Bruns, Bnmswick, 1783 (.'>9« pp.). I J. B. de Rossi, Variir lectiones Vet. Test., Parma, 1784-88, 4", and Scholia critica in VT libros, 1798, 4» (describes not only his own MSS, but all the codd. used by or for Ken- uicott which he ha^l been able to see for himself].
K. Facsimiles of Bible MSS : The Palajojrraphical Society's Fac- timiles of ancient Jf.S'5 (Orient, series), ed. W. Wright, London,
ft. ill. plate 40: Brit. Mus, Harley 5720, Fonner and Latter ropliets, 2 K 1922.35 ('seems to be of the 12tli cent.*); plate 41 ; Cambridge Univ. 2.5, Hagiographa with Targum, Dn l'-*, Jan. 1347 a.d.; pt. iv. (1879) plate S4 : Brit. Mus. Orient. 14«7, Pent, and Targ. Onk. with the supralinear vowel signs, Nu 22*1- 23'^ ('written in Babylonia or Persia, about the 12tli cent.'). || Ad. Neubauer, Facsimiles of Heb. MSS in the Bodleian Lib- rar'j, Oxford, 1888, plate 1, cat. 64 : Dt 95-7, with supralinear vowel signs and accents ; plate 8, cat, 2322 : Gn li-**. Span. •quare character, 1476 i.u. ; plate 14, cat. 20: Ex 182»-19'-», German, 1340 A.D.; plate 21, cat. 1144 : beginning of the book of Jonah, followed by a Gr. tr., before 1203 A.b.; plate 31, cat. 2828: 2 S 22^", Yemen, 15C1 a.d.; plate 38, cat. 2484 : Pr 414-63, Yemen, with the simpliHed supralinear punctuation ; plate 30 ; Mai 1^213, unknown characters, from a MS in private posses- lion in Kertsch (oee A. Harkavy, Netiaufgefuixdene heb. Bibel- handschriften, St. Petersb. und Leipzig, 1884 (48 pp. and 6 focsim.]). u Ch. D. Oinsburg, .4 «<fm»o/lt/'t«n/ac«Tni7*«/rom MS pages of the Ueb. Bible, vnth a tetterpress description, London, 1897, fol. max. [13 of these MSS are in the Brit. Mus., 1 is in the possession of the Earl of Leicester, 1 Is cod. Petropol. Bltl A.D.]. I B. Sla<le (dVI) gives facsim. of : cod. Petropol. 910 A.D, ; cod. Karlsruhe 1 [Kennicott 164], Former and Latter Prophets with Targum, once in the possession of Ucuchlin, 1 S :iirai-3I» ; Erfurt Bible, now Beriin Orient, fol. 1213, Is 1' 2fl ; Hagiographa. with the simplified supralinear punctuation, Yemen, Berlin Orient, Quarto 680, Pa 101*-10211. II W. Wickes {Accentuation of the Prose books) givea as frontispiece a photo- graph (reduced scale) of a page of the Aleppo codex, (in 203^ 2730. I Ad. Neubauer in Stuaia Biblica et tccles. iii. gives fac- simile of cod. Cairo a.d. 897 and cod. Cambridge 12 (see above, D). I On otber facsimiles (mostly from non-IJiblical MSS) see M. Steinschneider, ' Zur Literatur der heb. Palajographio * in Centralblatt fiir Bibliothekswesen, 1887, pp. 166-105.
L. On A. Firkowit*t'h : II. L. Strack, A. Firk. und seine Bnt- deckumen, Leipzig, 1876 (44 pp.); ZD.Md, 18S0, pp. 103 1U8; Lit. Centralbt. 1883, No. 26, cola. 878-8S0. II A. llarkavv, Altjiid. Dtnkindler aus dtr Krim, 8t PeU'rsburg, 1876 (288 PP). «••