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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>
  • To: Pere Casanellas <pere.casanellas AT btlink.net>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Variant forms of vav with holem
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:06:11 -0700

On 29/07/2003 01:33, Pere Casanellas wrote:

I have not at hand now facsimiles of the L and Aleppo manuscripts, but I am nearly sure that the editors of the BHS just copied a distinction that already is in the manuscript.

I have checked the facsimiles of the following manuscripts and editions that I have at hand and all of them differentiate clearly betwen holam + vav mater lectionis and vav consonant + holam:

Gottweig (Austria), Stiftsbibliothek, ms. 10 and 11 (883), XIV or XV century (Pentateuch + Prophtets, square Ashkenazic script)

Second Rabbinic Bible (Venice 1524-1525), by Jacob ben Hayyim.

Biblia Polyglotta Complutensis (Alcalá de Henares, 1514-1517)

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Thank you for these important details. It is clear to me now that this distinction has been significant for many centuries. In fact I suspect that the innovation is not making the distinction, and that may be quite recent, although it at least as old as Davidson's analytical lexicon, of which I have a facsimile edition from 1850 in which there is no distinction.

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