Description of British Library, Add MS 21161: Nevi'im u-khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 21161: Nevi'im u-khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) 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 21161: Nevi'im u-khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים). 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 beginning and the end, with lacunae after folio 98, 230 and 234. 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 21161 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21161 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Parts of the Prophets and Hagiographa, with vowel-points, accents and masorah parva. Hebrew Nevi'im u-khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) 1r Samuel 27r Jeremiah 56v Kings 94r Ezekiel 99r Isaiah 109r Hosea 112v Joel 114r Amos 117r Obadiah 117v Jonah 118v Micah 121r Nahum 121v Habakuk 122v Zephaniah 124r Haggai 125r Zechariah 130r Malachi 132r Ruth 135r Psalms 173v Job 191r Proverbs 203v Ecclesiastes 208v Song of Songs 211v Lamentations 215r Daniel 226r Esther 231r Ezra-Nehemiah 245v Chronicles

Parchment

 258 folios; 258 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 34; written lines: 33; Uniform layout. Visible ruling with a hard-point on the hair side of the folio. Pricking visible along the inner margin. No masorah magna in the upper and lower margins. The notes belonging to masorah have no fixed place, but are written in different parts of the margin of the given page, and sometime in between the columns. The Haftarot have been frequently marked by a later hand in the margin. Several omissions provided in the margins. Ashkenazi square script, punctuated and accentuated, of the 12th century.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 21,161.'

Between 1100 and 1199

Germany Acquisition: M. Edwin Tross of Paris: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 October 1855: inscribed, [260v].