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

Title

Nevi'im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26879
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26879
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

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

Origin

Place

France

Summary

Former and Latter Prophets punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva, Targum Jonathan and Rashi's commentary.

Notes

• Purchase note, with names deleted, 5119 [1359] (2r); copy of the same purchase note, 17th-18th century.
   
• Partially deleted inscription: [.. ..] Bar Elhanan blessed be his memory [.. ..] Mosheh Leṿi (2r).
   
• Illegible Latin inscriptions (3r).
   
• Entries of births and deaths (268r).
   
• Censored by Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (2r, 267v), see 85-87.
   

Extent

268 folios; 268 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 38; written lines: 37; The older flyleaves have a watermark of a coat of arms with a man in the moon. Pricking and ruling are visible. Lacunae in the text are after folios 117, 154, 234, 235. Masorah magna occupies three lines in the upper and four in the lower margin. The Targum forms the inner column and Rashi's commentary (often in the form of circles and other designs) is written in the outer part of the page.

Script

Ashkenazi (French?) square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yehudah Leṿi?: the name Yehudah is marked on 176r; Leṿi is marked on 266r. Scribal formula: 'Grow stronger and let us grow stronger. May no harm befall on the copyist not today and not ever until the donkey ascends the ladder to the heavens about which our father Jacob had dreamed' (267v).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Samuel Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 August, 1865: inscribed ([239v]).
   

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. 2v — Joshua
• fol. 26v — Judges
• fol. 50r — Samuel
• fol. 108r — Kings
• fol. 154v — Jeremiah
• fol. 155r — Ezekiel
• fol. 199v — Isaiah
• fol. 235r — Hosea
• fol. 236r — Joel
• fol. 237v — Amos
• fol. 243r — Obadiah
• fol. 243v — Jonah
• fol. 245v — Micah
• fol. 249r — Nahum
• fol. 251r — Habakuk
• fol. 252v — Zephaniah
• fol. 254v — Haggai
• fol. 256v — Zechariah
• fol. 265r — Malachi