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Title

Hebrew Bible (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 15252
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15252
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Tregami

Origin

Place

SpainCatalonia

Summary

The so-called 'Duke of Sussex Bible' with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh de Medina (b. 1505, d. 1589), Talmudist from Salonica: inscribed with his name in a purchase note (folio 1r).
   
• Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 477v); 100-101 & app. 80-84.
   
• Birth entries in Spanish of four sons of an unknown family, 1699, 1700, 1702, 1704 (folio 1r).
   

Extent

477 folios; 477 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,252. Plut.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 45; written lines: 44; Uniform layout. Ruling visible at times. Flesh side and hair side distinguishable. The masorah magna occupies two lines at the top of the page and three at the bottom of the page. In the lower margin it is written in the form of ornamental patterns (micrography). Gilt edges.

Script

Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the second half of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his sale 31 July 1844, lot 103: inscribed (folio 478v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), for £5.
   

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. 1v — Genesis
• fol. 29r — Exodus
• fol. 53v — Leviticus
• fol. 71r — Numbers
• fol. 94v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 116v — Joshua
• fol. 131v — Judges
• fol. 146v — Samuel
• fol. 181v — Kings
• fol. 218v — Isaiah
• fol. 243r — Jeremiah
• fol. 275r — Ezekiel
• fol. 302r — Hosea
• fol. 305v — Joel
• fol. 307r — Amos
• fol. 310r — Obadiah
• fol. 310v — Jonah
• fol. 311v — Micah
• fol. 313v — Nahum
• fol. 314v — Habakuk
• fol. 315v — Zephaniah
• fol. 316v — Haggai
• fol. 317v — Zechariah
• fol. 322r — Malachi
• fol. 323v — Ruth
• fol. 326r — Psalms
• fol. 371r — Job
• fol. 389v — Proverbs
• fol. 404v — Song of Songs
• fol. 406v — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 411r — Lamentations
• fol. 412r — Esther
• fol. 413v — Daniel
• fol. 427r — Ezra
• fol. 441r — Chronicles