Description of British Library, Add MS 15250: Tana"kh (תנ"ך) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 15250: Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 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 15250: Tana"kh (תנ"ך). 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. Note of birth: Joseph, the brother of a previous owner was born on 15 Nisan 5253 [1493] (folio 437r). Illegible Hebrew inscription (folio 1r). 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 15250 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15250 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Bible (the Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible) with masorah magna and parva Hebrew Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 5v Genesis 32v Exodus 56r Leviticus 72v Numbers 95v Deuteronomy 116v Joshua 131v Judges 145v Samuel 180r Kings 215r Isaiah 239r Jeremiah 270v Ezekiel 297r Hosea 300v Joel 302r Amos 305r Obadiah Jonah 306r Micah 308r Nahum 309r Habakuk 310r Zephaniah 311r Hagai 312r Zechariah 316v Malachi 317v Ruth 319v Psalms 346v Job 358r Proverbs 367r Ecclesiastes 371v Song of Songs 373r Lamentations 375v Daniel 384r Esther 388v Ezra 402r Chronicles

Parchment

 437 folios; 437 folios Columns: 2 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 31; Uniform layout. Ruling and pricking are visible. Numerous decorations: 2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, masoretic lists in architectural frames, masorah in micrographic design. Masorah magna usually occupies two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin of each page. It is frequently written in the form of ornamental design, often that of a candlestick. Exodus, Numbers, Jeremiah, Malachi, Psalms, Song of Songs, Esther and Ezra-Nehemiah begin a new column, and Leviticus and Proverbs begin a new leaf. Sefardi square script, third quarter of the 14th century, punctuated.

Post-1600. 18th-century Italian red velvet binding on wood boards, with copper centrepiece and cornerpieces and remains of clasps. Spine: 'Biblia Sacra Hebraica in Membrana. Mus. Brit. Jure. Emptionis. 15, 250.'

Between 1350 and 1374

Catalonia, Spain Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (inner front cover); his sale 31 July 1844, lot 101: inscribed (folio 437v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller for £41. English inscription, 19th century: 'The date assigned to this MS by Mr Pettigrew (Bibl. Suss. i. p. xii. No. 2) and marked on the binding is erroneous and arises from his having mistaken the note at the end of the volume for the date of the copy whereas it refers only to the birthday of the son of a former possessor of the MS' (folio [438v]).