Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 58
- Source
- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- Hebrew MS 58
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Hebrew
- English
- Title
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- An Analysis of Every Word in the Book of Genesis
- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- James Prince Lee (1804-1869)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Lee, James Prince, 1804-1869
- J. Prince Lee
- Biblissima authority file
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- Description
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- Extent:
310 pages (ii+IX+155) Leaf height: 165 mm, width: 102 mm.
Binding:
Quarter binding with brown fake leather on spine and corners, and green marble paper on boards.
Acquisition:
Bequeathed in 1869 to Owens College, Manchester after the death of J. Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester. A bookplate on the front paste-down, with handwritten shelfmark OR / C31, confirms the donation.
Layout:
Text contained in table, drawn in pencil.
Script:
Square script, in a Christian hand.
Data Source(s):
Description by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Subject(s):
Hebrew language Grammar; Dictionaries
Abstract:
Personal notebook by nineteenth-century Christian Hebraist scholar M.G. Camilleri (of Warrington, Lancashire), in which he provides a glossary of all the Hebrew words as they occur in Genesis followed by their English translation with the verb forms being parsed. The glossary contains as many as 6,037 numbered items. The notebook came eventually into the possession of Bishop of Manchester James Prince Lee (1804-1869).
Foliation:
After two fly-leaves, 9 folios are paginated at top centre margin with Roman numerals I-XVIII. Pagination of the next 155 folios is in Arabic numerals at top centre margin of each page. Those folios are numbered as follows: 1-116 (58 folios) then 109-302 (97 folios, whereby two pages are numbered 112 and page 302 is partially stuck to back paste-down).
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper
Provenance:
Front board: Handwritten label reading "OR / C31".
Folio ia: Handwritten note in pencil reading "HEBREW MS 58".
Folio ia: Title page reading "An / Analysis of every word in / the book of / Genesis / By / Sign.r M.G. Camilleri / Warrington February 1835 / soli Deo glória.".
Folio ib: Number 4971 handwritten in pencil.
Folio ib: Label reading "CLASS A SECTION 67 / PROG.No. 4971 / CASE, 〚VIII〛 SHELF, 4 〚No. 29〛".
Page I: Stamp of Owens College Manchester.
Condition:
Front board detaching from spine. Some folios have been cut and some, smaller in size, have irregular edges.
Note(s):
The notebook starts with a brief preface in which M.G. Camilleri explains a few aspects of Biblical Hebrew grammar (I, IV-VI) such as the cantillation signs and ketiv/qere (I). The rest of pages I-IX are blank. The main text consists of a glossary in which vocalised biblical words are listed alphabetically as they occur in Genesis followed by their English translation with the verb forms having been parsed. Subheadings consist of the first two Hebrew letters of the words listed under them. The glossary comprises as many as 6,037 numbered items. The numbering jumps from 2637 to 2869 at the point where the pagination changes from 109 to 116 (between folio 58 and 59, subheading וכ). This shows how Camilleri must have pieced the notebook together from at least two glossaries produced by him.
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- Rights
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