Description of British Library, Add MS 15252: Hebrew Bible (תנ"ך) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-07-08 2020-07-08 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 15252: Hebrew Bible (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 15252: Hebrew Bible (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. Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh de Medina (b. 1505, d. 1589), Talmudist from Salonica: inscribed with his name in a purchase note (folio 1r). Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 477v); 100-101 & app. 80-84. Birth entries in Spanish of four sons of an unknown family, 1699, 1700, 1702, 1704 (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 15252 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15252 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The so-called 'Duke of Sussex Bible' with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva. Hebrew; Tregami Hebrew Bible (תנ"ך) 1v Genesis 29r Exodus 53v Leviticus 71r Numbers 94v Deuteronomy 116v Joshua 131v Judges 146v Samuel 181v Kings 218v Isaiah 243r Jeremiah 275r Ezekiel 302r Hosea 305v Joel 307r Amos 310r Obadiah 310v Jonah 311v Micah 313v Nahum 314v Habakuk 315v Zephaniah 316v Haggai 317v Zechariah 322r Malachi 323v Ruth 326r Psalms 371r Job 389v Proverbs 404v Song of Songs 406v Ecclesiastes 411r Lamentations 412r Esther 413v Daniel 427r Ezra 441r Chronicles

Parchment

 477 folios; 477 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 45; written lines: 44; Uniform layout. Ruling visible at times. Flesh side and hair side distinguishable. The masorah magna occupies two lines at the top of the page and three at the bottom of the page. In the lower margin it is written in the form of ornamental patterns (micrography). Gilt edges. Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the second half of the 14th century.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,252. Plut.'

Between 1350 and 1374

SpainCatalonia Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his sale 31 July 1844, lot 103: inscribed (folio 478v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), for £5.