Description of British Library, Add MS 26879: Nevi'im (נביאים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26879: Nevi'im (נביאים) 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 26879: Nevi'im (נביאים). 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. Purchase note, with names deleted, 5119 [1359] (2r); copy of the same purchase note, 17th-18th century. Partially deleted inscription: [.. ..] Bar Elhanan blessed be his memory [.. ..] Mosheh Leṿi (2r). Illegible Latin inscriptions (3r). Entries of births and deaths (268r). Censored by Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (2r, 267v), see 85-87. 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 26879 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26879 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Former and Latter Prophets punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva, Targum Jonathan and Rashi's commentary. Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Nevi'im (נביאים) 2v Joshua 26v Judges 50r Samuel 108r Kings 154v Jeremiah 155r Ezekiel 199v Isaiah 235r Hosea 236r Joel 237v Amos 243r Obadiah 243v Jonah 245v Micah 249r Nahum 251r Habakuk 252v Zephaniah 254v Haggai 256v Zechariah 265r Malachi

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 268 folios; 268 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 38; written lines: 37; The older flyleaves have a watermark of a coat of arms with a man in the moon. Pricking and ruling are visible. Lacunae in the text are after folios 117, 154, 234, 235. Masorah magna occupies three lines in the upper and four in the lower margin. The Targum forms the inner column and Rashi's commentary (often in the form of circles and other designs) is written in the outer part of the page. Ashkenazi (French?) square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yehudah Leṿi?: the name Yehudah is marked on 176r; Leṿi is marked on 266r. Scribal formula: 'Grow stronger and let us grow stronger. May no harm befall on the copyist not today and not ever until the donkey ascends the ladder to the heavens about which our father Jacob had dreamed' (267v).

BM/BL in-house.

Between 1200 and 1299

France Acquisition: Samuel Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 August, 1865: inscribed ([239v]).