Script: Sephardic script Provenance: Gift of William M. Kincaid (Williams 1871), 1903. Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Hugo Stangenwald, who reputed;y acquired it while traveling in Syria (although palaeographical evidence indicates that this provenance may be manufactured). After Stagenwald's death in 1899, it was given by Stagenwald's wife to William M. Kincaid. Provenance: In a 1903 letter, Kincaid reports that Stangenwald received the manuscript as a gift while traveling in Syria, in thanks for providing medical treatment to a local woman. Kincaid further reports: "It was found in the hand of a mummy in a cave." Numerous corrections in the text, where the scribe omitted one or more words and then had to add them later, are present in columns 6 through 8. In column 8, the scribe's eye jumped from one word to the same later word, and skipped all the words in between; he then had to erase what he wrote, and fit the additional omitted text into that same space, which is why the script in column 8, lines 7 through 9 is so cramped.
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