Description of British Library, Add MS 9399: 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 9399: 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 9399: 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. There is a lacuna after folio 242. Manuscript is also defective at the end and folio 155 is only partially preserved. Ya῾aḳov ben Yo᾿ets; his inscription within the initial word of the Song of Songs, folio 86v. Dated inscription and memorandum on paper fly-leaf, 1r, 4894 (1136, antedated). 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 9399 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9399 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Parts of the Prophets and the Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva. Hebrew Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) 32r Ezekiel 57v Hosea 62r Joel 63v Amos 67r Obadiah 67v Jonah 69r Micah 71r Nahum 72r Habakkuk 73v Zephaniah 74v Haggai 76r Zechariah 81v Malachi 84r Ruth 86v Song of Songs 89r Ecclesiastes 94v Lamentations 97v Esther 103v Psalms 147v Proverbs 162r Job 179r Daniel 191v Ezra 211r Chronicles

Parchment

 249 folios; 249 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. The first word in Isaiah and Hagiographa is written in large ornamental characters. In the other prophetical books the blank space reserved for the first word has not been filled up. The number of Psalms is 159. Masorah magna occupies two lines in the upper and three lines in the lower margin. Pricking and ruling (with hard-point on the hair side of the folio) are visible. Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated. Shelomoh, inscribed with his name in the scribal formula on folio 83r, 178v.

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Yahya al-Shaihani. Al-Wazir. Ikhtilaf. Al-Aimman. Arabic. BK. XII. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9399.'

Between 1200 and 1299

Germany Acquisition: Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: his bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin (inner upper cover); purchased for his library in 1823 in Utrecht. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Additional 9398-9407, see 119, 120, 70, 71, 73, 81, 143, 172), was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then of Adam Clarke.