Description of British Library, Add MS 15251: Tana"kh (תנ"ך) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-07-07 2020-07-07 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 15251: 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 15251: 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. The margin of folios 2v-10r and 430v embodies the Song of Songs, Ruth, Psalms 1-5 and the beginnings of Psalm 89. Samuel ben ...: inscribed with his name in the colophon as a later correction (folio 429v). See comment in the sale catalogue of Bibliotheca Sussexiana, , according to which this manuscript 'has been taken out of the Vatican by Junot.' The Reverand Theodore Williams of Hendon, c. 1824: his motto Deus alit me ('God sustains me') above his armorial shield of a fess, 3 crescents, 3 birds, and a bird on top of the shield ([i verso]), and the monogram 'TW', and the motto ([i verso]). 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 15251 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15251 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Bible with masorah magna and parva, aka 'Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible'. Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 2r Masoretic list 13r Genesis 41v Exodus 65v Leviticus 81v Numbers 104r Deuteronomy 125r Joshua 138v Judges 151v Samuel 183r Kings 216v Isaiah 239r Jeremiah 294r Hosea 297r Joel 298v Amos 301r Obadiah 301v Jonah 302v Micah 304v Nahum 305v Habakuk 306v Zephaniah 307v Haggai 308r Zechariah 312v Malachi 313v Chronicles 347r Psalms 375r Job 386r Proverbs 394v Ruth 396v Song of Songs 398r Ecclesiastes 404r Esther 408r Daniel 416r Ezra 430r Masoretic lists

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 448 folios; Unfoliated blank leaves after folio 12 and 448. Hebrew foliation from folio 13 starting with alef, that is, 1 until folio 124 (Hebrew folio 113). Hebrew foliation restarts on folio 125. Columns: 2; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 31; Uniform layout. Masorah magna in two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin. Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Post-1600. Red morocco binding with gauffered edges, the arms and motto of Theodore Williams on the upper and lower covers.

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Ferrara, Italy Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (folio 451v); his sale 31 July 1844, lot 102: inscribed (folio 449v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), for £34.10.