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

Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 15451
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15451
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany; Syracuse

Summary

The Bible with masorah magna and parva.

Extent

508 folios; 508 folios

Foliation

Original Hebrew foliation not visible. Quires are marked by catchwords at the end, the mark בי being written in the upper right-hand corner at the beginning of the quires.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. Pricking and ruling visible. Ruled with a pencil (both main text and masoretic notes). Leviticus, Joshua, Kings and Isaiah begin a new leaf, and Psalms open a new page. Beginning of a weekly section marked by the word סדר in the margin. The sign פפ stands between the sections. Beginning and end of the Torah lessons for feasts and fasts marked in red (folio 14r, 45v, 46v). Masorah magna is written in two lines in the upper margin and in three lines in the lower margin.

Script

Ashkenazi square script for the main text and semi-cursive for masorah. One folio with masoretic lists written with a Greek hand (Syracuse).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum on 12 December 1844.
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Genesis
• fol. 37v — Exodus
• fol. 69r — Leviticus
• fol. 89v — Numbers
• fol. 119r — Deuteronomy
• fol. 145v — Joshua
• fol. 162v — Judges
• fol. 179v — Samuel
• fol. 223r — Kings
• fol. 267r — Jeremiah
• fol. 306r — Ezekiel
• fol. 341r — Isaiah
• fol. 371r — Hosea
• fol. 375v — Joel
• fol. 377r — Amos
• fol. 381r — Obadiah
• fol. 381v — Jonah
• fol. 382v — Micah
• fol. 385r — Nahum
• fol. 386r — Habakuk
• fol. 387r — Zephaniah
• fol. 389r — Haggai
• fol. 390r — Zechariah
• fol. 395v — Malachi
• fol. 397v — Psalms
• fol. 436v — Job (only until 1:10)
• fol. 437r — Daniel
• fol. 447v — Ezra
• fol. 465r — Chronicles