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032-003367272
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Add MS 4992
Title:
Hebrew-Latin dictionary
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
55 folios (fols. 228r-174v - this section is going from right to left)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Add MS 4992

Hebrew-Latin dictionary

Contents

A Hebrew-Latin dictionary.

Language(s): Hebrew, Latin

ff. 228r-174v
Title: Milon ῾ivri-latini
Title: מלון עברי-לטיני

A Hebrew-Latin vocabulary, extracted from Buxtorf's Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum, by Bulstrade Whitelock, to whose Annals for 1653-1656 it is appended in the present manuscript.

On the first page, which was written by Whitelock himself, the explanations are in English. The rest of the work is written in another hand, and the explanations are henceforth in Latin.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 55 folios (fols. 228r-174v - this section is going from right to left)
Dimensions (leaf): 115 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 70 mm.
Foliation: :

55 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Leaves separately guarded before rebinding.

Condition

Corrosive ink, many areas or whole leaves laminated.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Many marginal notes and additions throughout.

Running titles.

Hand(s)

Hebrew square and Latin scripts of the 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Glossary. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 4992.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4992 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 87.

Funding of Cataloguing

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