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Excerpt from The Turkoman Defeat at Cairo: By Solomon Ben Joseph Ha-Kohen On the margin, between 11. 145 and 147, there is inserted the word in a paler ink, but apparently by the same hand. This is probably of no particular significance. The word 132123 seems to have been tampered with, but all indications point to the fact that the erasure as well as the correction was done by the same hand. The manuscript is provided with vowel-points and other dia critical signs in a few places only, where the reading would otherwise not have been very clear. Thus, the 115 and the in are frequently indicated. The aspirate sounds of 3, I, D, h, are indicated by a line over the letter.2 The 5 and the I are most frequently so indicated, the 5 only twice (ll. 128, once (i. The h twice (ll. 3, There is no instance of the 2 and 9 being indicated as aspirates. This, however, may be entirely accidental and does not warrant the conclusion that these letters were not aspirated. All the vowel-signs, known to us at present, 7, T, if, i, i, 11, as well as the Sheva 7, occur in this fragment. Once the Patah occurs in the form of a vertical line under the letter, after the Arabic long Fatha over the letter, but here (1. 4) the vowel happens to be short. Peculiar is the combination of the short. With the long 1, the first to indicate that the vowel is short, and the second serving merely as a sign for the vowel it. The Arabic inscription on the second page was probably written before the paper was used for the poem. The writer of the Hebrew poem made use of a sheet that he found, leaving vacant the space occupied by the Arabic. Otherwise there would have been no reason for his leaving the spaces in the middle of cols. 3 and 4. The Arabic inscription itself is unintelligible. It is evident that the sheet was cut off from a larger sheet, the Arabic words being a continuation of the larger sheet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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