The manuscript comprises a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, followed by a glossary that presents further etymological parallels with related Oriental languages. Its method of helping students to identify the root letters of Hebrew words, was first developed by German Orientalist, and Professor of Hebrew, at the University of Leipzig, Elias Hutter (ca. 1553-1609).Contents: A manuscript note by Samuel Rolles Driver (i). Title page (ii). Preface (iii-vii). Dictionary (1r-43v). Glossary (44r-50v).Extent: ff 52. 440 x 280 x 20 mm.Hand: 18th century English hand.Binding: 18th century half-calf over paper boards.Additional information: Rahel Fronda, Jewish Books and their Christian Readers: Christ Church Connections (Oxford: Christ Church, 2017), pp. 92-96.
Binding: 18th century English red morocco with gold-tooled borders and fleurons; sewn onto six supports; gold-tooling on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Dimensions: 312 × 204 × 65 mm (size of binding); 302 × 187 mm (size of leaf)Hand: 18th century English hand.Layout: "Text is written in two columnsLayout: from left to right (mostly on verso sides of each leaf); first column is in HebrewLayout: arranged alphabetically and the second column is in LatinLayout: with examples of the same word form in HebrewLayout: AramaicLayout: Greek and Ge'ezLayout: and includes biblical references."Record origin: Description based on Kitchin, Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Bibliotheca Aedis Christi apud Oxonienses (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1867).
Binding: 18th century English red morocco with gold-tooled borders and fleurons; sewn onto six supports; gold-tooling on the spine; text block edges sprinkled red.Dimensions: 311 × 216 × 36 mm (size of binding); 304 × ca. 187-204 mm (size of leaf).Hand: 18th century English hand.Layout: "Text is written in two columnsLayout: from left to right; first column is in HebrewLayout: arranged alphabetically and the second column is in LatinLayout: with examples of the same word form in HebrewLayout: AramaicLayout: Greek and Ge'ezLayout: and includes biblical references."Record origin: Description based on Kitchin, Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Bibliotheca Aedis Christi apud Oxonienses (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1867).
