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

Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 15251
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15251
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE)

Origin

Place

Ferrara, Italy

Summary

The Bible with masorah magna and parva, aka 'Duke of Sussex's Italian Bible'.

Notes

• The margin of folios 2v-10r and 430v embodies the Song of Songs, Ruth, Psalms 1-5 and the beginnings of Psalm 89.
   
• Samuel ben ...: inscribed with his name in the colophon as a later correction (folio 429v). See comment in the sale catalogue of Bibliotheca Sussexiana, , according to which this manuscript 'has been taken out of the Vatican by Junot.'
   
• The Reverand Theodore Williams of Hendon, c. 1824: his motto Deus alit me ('God sustains me') above his armorial shield of a fess, 3 crescents, 3 birds, and a bird on top of the shield ([i verso]), and the monogram 'TW', and the motto ([i verso]).
   

Extent

448 folios;

Foliation

Unfoliated blank leaves after folio 12 and 448. Hebrew foliation from folio 13 starting with alef, that is, 1 until folio 124 (Hebrew folio 113). Hebrew foliation restarts on folio 125.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Red morocco binding with gauffered edges, the arms and motto of Theodore Williams on the upper and lower covers.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 31; Uniform layout. Masorah magna in two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin.

Script

Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (folio 451v); his sale 31 July 1844, lot 102: inscribed (folio 449v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), for £34.10.
   

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 — Masoretic list
• fol. 13r — Genesis
• fol. 41v — Exodus
• fol. 65v — Leviticus
• fol. 81v — Numbers
• fol. 104r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 125r — Joshua
• fol. 138v — Judges
• fol. 151v — Samuel
• fol. 183r — Kings
• fol. 216v — Isaiah
• fol. 239r — Jeremiah
• fol. 294r — Hosea
• fol. 297r — Joel
• fol. 298v — Amos
• fol. 301r — Obadiah
• fol. 301v — Jonah
• fol. 302v — Micah
• fol. 304v — Nahum
• fol. 305v — Habakuk
• fol. 306v — Zephaniah
• fol. 307v — Haggai
• fol. 308r — Zechariah
• fol. 312v — Malachi
• fol. 313v — Chronicles
• fol. 347r — Psalms
• fol. 375r — Job
• fol. 386r — Proverbs
• fol. 394v — Ruth
• fol. 396v — Song of Songs
• fol. 398r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 404r — Esther
• fol. 408r — Daniel
• fol. 416r — Ezra
• fol. 430r — Masoretic lists