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Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5710
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5710
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

ItalyRomeBologna

Summary

The first volume of the Bible with masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Clemento Renatto: inscribed with his name, undated (folio 258v).
   

Extent

258 folios; 258 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house, 'Harleian' binding. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Cum Not. Masoret. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Harley 5710.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 29; Uniform layout. Complete hard-point ruling. Masorah magna in usually three lines of the upper and five lines of the lower margin. The masoretic rubric registering the number of verses placed at the end of each book, but omitted at the end of Joshua, Judges and Samuel. In the prophetical books the beginning and the end of the haftarot frequently indicated in the margin.

Script

Main text in the Ashkenazi square script, punctuated. Masoretic text in Ashkenazi semi-cursive, unpunctuated. Masoretic notes in this volume provided by two hands, the second being Ḥizkiyahu ha-Naḳdan .

Provenance

• Acquisition: Edward Harley: bought by him through Nathaniel Noel (b. 1681, d. 1753), bookseller for £31 10s (price of the two volumes); inscription by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 18 January 1723/4 (folio 1r). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Genesis
• fol. 34v — Exodus
• fol. 63r — Leviticus
• fol. 83r — Numbers
• fol. 110v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 135v — Rules for the scribe
• fol. 137r — Joshua
• fol. 155r — Judges
• fol. 172v — Samuel
• fol. 215v — Kings