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Add MS 4377 ff 1-38v

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041-003314696
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Add MS 4377 ff 1-38v
Title:
Grammatical Miscellanea
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Western Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Add MS 4101-4478 : Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was…
Add MS 4377 : GRAMMATICAL MISCELLANEACollection of notes and treatises on grammatical subjects, the more important being: (1) Extracts, etc.,…

 

Add MS 4377 ff 1-38v : Grammatical Miscellanea
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[ii]+167+[ii] (entire manuscript)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
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Add MS 4377 ff 1-38v

Grammatical Miscellanea

Contents

Collection of notes and treatises on grammatical subjects

Language(s): Latin, English, Hebrew

Folios 1r, 2r, 8r-12v, 12ar, 13r-14r, 14ar, 15r, 15ar, 16r, 16ar, 18ar, 19r-19v, 19ar, 21r-21v, 21ar, 21br, 22r-22v, 22ar-22av, 24r
Title: Extracts from works on Arabic and Hebrew Grammar, by John Pell (folios 12-24r).
ff. 32r-34v
Title: Hebraica verba

1. "Hebraica verba omnino regularia", folio 33; "Verba hebraica Geminantia secundam", folio 33; "Verba hebraica ooנ sunt 111", folio 34.

ff. 35r-36v
Title: A scheme whereby any person of the meanest capacity may in a very short time perfect himself in the Hebrew language without the assistance of a master

At the end: "This scheme, with the verbs in Buxtorff's Hebrew Grammar [or any other] and Lexicon, is sufficient to answer the Title; as many Gentlemen have experienced to their entire satisfaction. Invented by Moses Marcus."

ff. 37r-37v
Title: Typus conjugationum habraicarum

A table of the Hebrew conjugations; imperfect.

ff. 38r-38v
Title: Biblical verses

Hebrew sentences and phrases taken from Job 19:21, Cant. 1:8, Is. 47:1, Job 1:21, Is. 24:16, Prov. 31:10, and Is. 41:20, partly with an English and Latin translation.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: [ii]+167+[ii] (entire manuscript)
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 215 mm.
Foliation:

167 folios

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Papers variable in condition.

Edge damage, small tears or split folds.

Dirt entry at head and between uneven textblock.

Layout

Columns:1

Leaves of various sizes.

Ruling by hard point,

Marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Latin script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house (1973). Strip of decorated leather from previous binding on inner front board, gold-tooled centrepiece: "E BIBLIOTHECA BIRCHIANA".

Spine: 'Grammatical Miscellanea. Birch Collection Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 4377.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; England

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4377_ff_1-38v (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.995

Funding of Cataloguing

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