MAM documentation notes on Psalms 17:14 (translated)

An English rendering of the four MAM נוסח (text-variant) documentation notes on this verse, one per word. Manuscript sigils and the technical accent/mark names are left in Hebrew and explained rather than replaced, and the implicit subject “MAM” is supplied wherever a note begins with “=”. Source: MAM-with-doc, Psalms 17:14.

Note 1 — on מִ֥מְתִֽים־יָדְךָ֨ ׀

MAM = ש1, ק13, ל-א, גסטר1 (with respect to the מרכא [merkha] as a secondary accent [טעם משני], the געיה [ga’ya] on the stressed syllable, and the מקף [maqqef]). In these manuscripts (ש1 = Sassoon 1053, ק13 = Cambridge T-S 13, ל-א = St. Petersburg EVR-II-B-55, גסטר1 = Gaster 1), and in keeping with the practice of the Keter (Aleppo Codex), there is also a חטף [ḥataf], to indicate the mobilization of the שווא [shva] after a merkha functioning as a secondary accent: ‹מִ֥מֲתִֽים־יָדְךָ֨ ׀›.

• Regarding the merkha and the ga’ya, see Breuer, Ṭaʿamei ha-Miqra, §11.3 (pp. 264–265): “A special accentuation applies before a לגרמיה [legarmeh] operating within the domain of a פזר [pazer]: a secondary merkha is placed at the head of the word before the legarmeh — on condition that there is a separation between the merkha and the vowel that ought to be stressed. The secondary merkha comes with no primary accent, and a ga’ya takes the place of the [primary] accent” (compare the example below at 19:15). The accents appear this way in Breuer and in מג״ה (Miqra’ot Gedolot Ha-Keter), but they omit the maqqef.
• ל (Leningrad) = ‹מִֽמְתִ֥ים־יָדְךָ֨ ׀› (ga’ya, merkha, and maqqef, with no ḥataf) according to המקליד (the transcriber) — and likewise in קורן (Koren), which omits the maqqef — or ‹מִֽמְתִֽים־יָדְךָ֨ ׀› (both being ga’yas) according to דותן (Dotan) (and this seems the more likely reading in the Leningrad manuscript itself, כתי״ל).
• Breuer; Miqra’ot Gedolot Ha-Keter; Simanim; Mechon Mamre.

Note 2 — on מִֽמְתִ֬ים

MAM = ל, ש1, גסטר1.

• ק13, פטרבורג-EVR-II-B-55 (St. Petersburg EVR-II-B-55), and the practice of Aleppo (שיטת-א) = מִֽמֲתִ֬ים (with a חטף [ḥataf]), and so too in מג״ה.

Note 3 — on יִשְׂבְּע֥וּ

MAM = ש1, ק13, גסטר1 and the printed editions (דפוסים).

• ל (Leningrad) reads יִשְׂבּ֥עוּ (missing the שווא [shva] under the letter בי״ת [bet]), but המקליד (the transcriber) corrected it without noting the correction.
• The notes of Dotan and Breuer.

Note 4 — on לְעוֹלְלֵיהֶֽם

MAM = ש1(?), ק-מ (Cambridge Add. 1753) — the placement of the סילוק [silluq].

• גסטר1 reads לְעֽוֹלְלֵיהֶֽם (with a ga’ya and a silluq).
• ל (Leningrad) reads לְעוֹלְלֵֽיהֶם (the placement of the silluq), but המקליד (the transcriber) marked the right-side silluq specifically on the letter ה״א [he] (!).
• The notes of Breuer and Dotan.