Description of British Library, Add MS 11657: Nevi᾿im (נביאים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 11657: Nevi᾿im (נביאים) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 11657: Nevi᾿im (נביאים). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Imperfect at the end. Leaves missing after folio 332. 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript with birth notes, 16th century (folio 1r). Inscription in an initial-word panel: 'Yishmael, Nehemiah, Raphael, Hayim Ottolenghi, Judah Eliezer, Nahman, brothers, sons of Menahem' (folio 110v). Birth notes, 16th century (folio 1r). Italian inscription: belonged to the Foa Library in Reggio ([iv verso], inside front cover). Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 11657 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11657 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Former and Latter Prophets. Hebrew Nevi᾿im (נביאים) 2r Joshua 27r Judges 51r Samuel 110v Kings 171v Isaiah 213r Jeremiah 266v Ezekiel 313r Hosea 318v Joel 321r Amos 326v Obadiah 327r Jonah 329r Micah 332v Nahum 333r Zechariah

Parchment

 333 folios; 333 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Visible complete hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. All books except Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah and Nahum begin a new page. Judges, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea and Micah commence a new leaf. Hafṭarot are indicated in the margins by a later hand. Another hand has numbered the chapters with Hebrew letters and added the titles in the upper margin. Ashkenazi square script (punctuated), Italian semi-cursive script (unpunctuated) of the 14th to 15th century. Meshulam: written in red in the text, folio 166r.

BM in-house. Spine: 'Former & Latter Prophets. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 11657.'

Between 1350 and 1449

Italy Acquisition: Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 21 September 1839 : inscribed, [334v]).