MS. Bodley Or. 79
Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental
Contents
Hebrew-Arabic dictionary to the Bible and the Mishnah
ff. 1r-54v
Hebrew-Arabic dictionary to the Bible and the Mishnah מלון עברי-ערבי למקרא ולמשנה Incomplete.
Language(s): Hebrew and Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 54
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Layout
Text in one column.
Hand(s)
Oriental semi-cusive script.
Decoration
Not decorated.
Binding
Half bound.
History
Origin: [Orient]; [(early?) 13th century]
Provenance and Acquisition
Belonged to the collection of Dr. Edward Bernard, who left all his printed books and MSS to his wife, but expressed a hope that the Bodleian Library would buy them.
Bought from Dr. Edward Bernard's widow as part of Bernard's collection in 1698 (see Summary Catalogue).
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 1504, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 1504, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.
Availability
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.
Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1504.
Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 1504.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, "The Science of Language among Medieval Jews", in Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures, ed. Gad Freudenthal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 384 n. 132.