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Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 11657
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11657
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Former and Latter Prophets.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Leaves missing after folio 332.
   
• 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript with birth notes, 16th century (folio 1r).
   
• Inscription in an initial-word panel: 'Yishmael, Nehemiah, Raphael, Hayim Ottolenghi, Judah Eliezer, Nahman, brothers, sons of Menahem' (folio 110v).
   
• Birth notes, 16th century (folio 1r).
   
• Italian inscription: belonged to the Foa Library in Reggio ([iv verso], inside front cover).
   

Extent

333 folios; 333 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Former & Latter Prophets. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 11657.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Visible complete hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. All books except Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah and Nahum begin a new page. Judges, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea and Micah commence a new leaf. Hafṭarot are indicated in the margins by a later hand. Another hand has numbered the chapters with Hebrew letters and added the titles in the upper margin.

Script

Ashkenazi square script (punctuated), Italian semi-cursive script (unpunctuated) of the 14th to 15th century. Meshulam: written in red in the text, folio 166r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 21 September 1839 : inscribed, [334v]).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Joshua
• fol. 27r — Judges
• fol. 51r — Samuel
• fol. 110v — Kings
• fol. 171v — Isaiah
• fol. 213r — Jeremiah
• fol. 266v — Ezekiel
• fol. 313r — Hosea
• fol. 318v — Joel
• fol. 321r — Amos
• fol. 326v — Obadiah
• fol. 327r — Jonah
• fol. 329r — Micah
• fol. 332v — Nahum
• fol. 333r — Zechariah