Of course! Thanks so much - really appreciate this ELI5

Yeah I always forget that. I keep imagining there are missing letters which have been removed. Which there is in some cases (like ז״ל) but not in other cases like numbers!

Yeah they had no issues with that - evidently not theophoric enough!

Oh no you’re correct. I was just going off BDB there before checking.

This one here I looked at has טו for 15.

So are you able to explain for me what is going on? What does the replacement mean? So many abbreviations I don’t know 😭

Thanks Marg. I hadn’t come across those options for זנה before. It’s interesting it has this meaning only in this place in the HB so I’m always cautious. However it certainly makes more sense than the traditional translation!

It’s okay. You’re safe here.

I believe this is a photo from their conversation about their scheme.

The only name I can read easily is יצחק לוי אשכנזי but I'm sure that for someone else what looks like scrawls and practices would be a goldmine of information.

I am compiling a list of things to check out on a return visit. I had time constraints so was very focused on Bk IV.

But here are the last pages of the C14 Psalms Ms Nicholson 36 (said to be ex-Naples); I have trouble making anything out.

I also have questions about this dream world - how can you have back stories (Wicked) and postscripts (Return to Oz - that terrifying film) to what is essentially revealed to be a dream sequence?

The journey afterwards (also absent in the film) feels very Gulliver’s Travels. The three friends each receive a different kingdom to rule over.

Amazing. Also wild that the NLI knows more about the Sydney Uni Mss than Sydney Uni!
Also wonderful that the three Mss I looked at last week are from such diverse places as Spain, Greece, and Constantinople.
Thank you so much Eric - life saver.

So none of them are clear about where they were written (and the third is vague about when). I'm trying to see if provenance has anything to do with the presentation of the psalms. I think the answer is "maybe but not really."

Nicholson 35 is a 1491 HB written by Joseph bar Solomon Farado in Tatalia, which might be the same as Tratalia in Sardinia?

There's also Nicholson 36 which is a C14 Psalms "in an ornamental Italian style" with a note about an eclipse in Constantinople!

Thanks Eric. They're from the four Medieval HB Codices I was looking at at Sydney Uni last week. They're both part of the Nicholson collection.

Nicholson 34 is a 1342 HB aka Codex Sussexianus Biblia Sacra Hebraice Scripta Comprehendens and was sold in 1497 in Matamodon.