Description of British Library, Add MS 15451: 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 15451: 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 15451: 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. 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 15451 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15451 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Bible with masorah magna and parva. Hebrew Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 2v Genesis 37v Exodus 69r Leviticus 89v Numbers 119r Deuteronomy 145v Joshua 162v Judges 179v Samuel 223r Kings 267r Jeremiah 306r Ezekiel 341r Isaiah 371r Hosea 375v Joel 377r Amos 381r Obadiah 381v Jonah 382v Micah 385r Nahum 386r Habakuk 387r Zephaniah 389r Haggai 390r Zechariah 395v Malachi 397v Psalms 436v Job (only until 1:10) 437r Daniel 447v Ezra 465r Chronicles

Parchment

 508 folios; 508 folios Original Hebrew foliation not visible. Quires are marked by catchwords at the end, the mark בי being written in the upper right-hand corner at the beginning of the quires. Columns: 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. Pricking and ruling visible. Ruled with a pencil (both main text and masoretic notes). Leviticus, Joshua, Kings and Isaiah begin a new leaf, and Psalms open a new page. Beginning of a weekly section marked by the word סדר in the margin. The sign פפ stands between the sections. Beginning and end of the Torah lessons for feasts and fasts marked in red (folio 14r, 45v, 46v). Masorah magna is written in two lines in the upper margin and in three lines in the lower margin. Ashkenazi square script for the main text and semi-cursive for masorah. One folio with masoretic lists written with a Greek hand (Syracuse).

BM/BL in-house.

Between 1200 and 1299

Germany; Syracuse Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum on 12 December 1844.