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Title

An analysis of every word in the Book of Genesis

Authors

• Camilleri, M. G., active 19th Century

Other related names

• Lee, James Prince, 1804-1869., former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/75456444/)

Call number

Hebrew MS 58
(Manchester, United Kingdom, University of Manchester, University of Manchester Library, Hebrew Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• Former: Prince Lee MS OR C31

Publisher

University of Manchester Library

Language

Hebrew; English

Origin

Place

Warrington, United Kingdom

Summary

Personal notebook by nineteenth-century Christian Hebraist scholar M. G. Camilleri based in Warrington, 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).

Notes

• Front board detaching from spine; some folios have been cut and some, smaller in size, have irregular edges
   
• Square script, in a Christian hand
   
• 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
   

Extent

Ii+IX+155; 165 mm x 102 mm

Foliation

After two fly-leaves, 9 folios are paginated at top centre margin with Roman numerals; 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) + 109-302 (97 folios, whereby two pages are numbered 112 and page 302 is partially stuck to back paste-down)

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter binding with brown fake leather on spine and corners, and green marble paper on boards.

Layout

Text contained in table, drawn in pencil

Script

Square script

Provenance

• Bequeathed in 1869 to Owens College, Manchester after the death of J. Prince Lee; a bookplate on front paste-down, with handwritten shelfmark OR / C31, confirms the donation to Owens College, Manchester in 1869
   

Subjects topical

• Hebrew language--Grammar
• Dictionaries

Keywords

• 19th century
• Jewish
• English
• Paper
• England
• Grammar

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Bookplate with handwritten shelfmark OR / C31
• Flyleaf i a — Title page reading "An / Analysis of every word in / the book of / Genesis / By / Signr M. G. Camilleri / Warrington February 1835 / soli Deo glória."
• Flyleaf i a — Handwritten note in pencil reading "HEBREW MS 58".
• Flyleaf i b — Number 4971 handwritten in pencil.
• i — Hebrew MS 58, [pp. i - vi]. 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)
• 1 — Hebrew MS 58, [pp. 1 -116]: The main text, which 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

Decorations

• Flyleaf i b — Label reading "CLASS A SECTION 67 / PROG.No. 4971 / CASE, VIII SHELF, 4 No. 29".
• i — Stamp from the Owens College Manchester.