Description of British Library, Harley MS 1528: Tana"kh (תנ"ך) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-11-18 2022-11-18 These images and the content of British Library Harley MS 1528: 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 Harley MS 1528: 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. David Finzi ben Menahem Finzi (or Panzi?): inscribed with his name (folio 424r 424r). Eliyaḳim ben Hosheʿa Finzi (or Panzi?): sold it to Yaʿaḳov ben Avraham of Sforno on Tuesday 29 April 5271 (1511) (folio 11r). Illegible inscription in Latin characters (folio 374r). Jacob Geraldino, censor: inscribed with his name, 12 December 1555 (folio 422v); see 104. Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century): inscribed with his name as censor: 'Visto per mi Fra Luigi da Bologna del 1602 in Reggio' (folio 422v); see 104. 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 Harley MS 1528 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1528 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Bible with masorah magna and parva (the 'Harley Catalan Bible'). Hebrew Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 1v Masoretic lists 11v Genesis 36v Exodus 58r Leviticus 73r Numbers 94r Deuteronomy 113v Joshua 127r Judges 140v Samuel 172v Kings 206r Isaiah 229r Jeremiah 260r Ezekiel 287r Hosea 290v Joel 292r Amos 294v Obadiah 295r Jonah 296r Micah 298r Nahum 299r Habakkuk 300r Zephaniah 301r Haggai 302r Zechariah 306r Malachi 307v Ruth 309r Psalms 336v Job 347r Proverbs 356r Ecclesiastes 359v Song of Songs 361r Lamentations 363v Daniel 371v Esther 376r Ezra 389r Chronicles 422v Masoretic lists

Parchment

 424 folios; 424 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 32; Watermark, of a lamb holding a cross (folio [ii recto]) and initials of JW (folio [425r]), of James Whatman II, paper maker (1764-1793). Gilt edges. Foliation is written on the verso side of the leaves. Hebrew foliation from folio 11. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Ruling is sometimes visible. Numerous decorations: full page miniatures in colours and gold of Temple implements, 12 full-page arcades in colours, masorah in micrographic design. Masorah magna occupies two lines at the top and three lines at the bottom of each page. It is also written in the outer margin in the form of ornamental figures, mostly a candlestick. Joshua, Isaiah, Nahum, Habakuk, Haggai, Ruth and Esther begin a new column, and Zechariah begins a new leaf. Sefardi square script of second or third quarter of 14th century, punctuated. Two folios in unpunctuated Ashkenazi square script.

Post-1600. Brown leather binding with the initials 'MB' (presumably Margaret Bentinck). Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley 1528.'

Between 1325 and 1374

SpainCatalonia Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.