Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 14760
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14760
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Former and Latter Prophets, accentuated and punctuated.

Notes

• Folios 314-317 partly stained.
   
• Folios 1r-1v and 315v-317v: doodle pages.
   
• Yitsḥaḳ Ḥazan of Furmicino and Shelomoh Yoshuʿa of Modena: inscribed in a contract of sale on folio 317v, with a date of 23 Tamuz 5355 (30 June 1595), at Ferrara.
   
• Yeḥi᾿el Petaḥyah and Barukh ben Petaḥyah: inscribed several times on the flyleaves.
   
• Luge Navaro, son of Eliezer Navaro de Ferrara: inscribed on folio 316v.
   
• Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition (active 1590-1609): inscribed with his name as censor, with a date of 1599, folio 315r, see 104.
   

Extent

317 folios; 317 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. MS. In Membranis. Anno MCCXCIII. Mus Brit. Jure Emptionis. 14,760. Plut.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 26 27; written lines: 25 26; Uniform layout. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Visible complete ruling by hard-point, bifolium by bifolium (on hair side). Graphic fillers at the end of line, last written line within ruling. Truncated mem. The first word of each book is written in large ornamental letter, with addition of a pen and ink design in Kings. Omitted words are supplied and faulty readings are corrected in the margin. The beginning and the end of Haftarot are marked in the margin by a later hand. Fine Italian parchment, ruled on the hair-side with a hard point. No pricking is visible due to trimmed margins. Gilt edges.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 13th century (at variance with production area). Finished and punctuated by a different hand than the first books in the manuscript. Binyamin ben Yoʾav min ha-῾Anaṿim: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 315r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss in 1844, folio [318v] .
   

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. 22v — Judges
• fol. 42v — Samuel
• fol. 93v — Kings
• fol. 150r — Isaiah
• fol. 189r — Jeremiah
• fol. 239r — Ezekiel
• fol. 283r — Hosea
• fol. 288r — Joel
• fol. 290r — Amos
• fol. 294v — Obadiah
• fol. 295r — Jonah
• fol. 296v — Micah
• fol. 300r — Nahum
• fol. 301r — Habakuk
• fol. 302v — Zephaniah
• fol. 304v — Haggai
• fol. 306r — Zechariah
• fol. 313r — Malachi