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

Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 4708
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4708
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

The Latter Prophets, accentuated and punctuated.

Notes

• Missing leaves after folio 83 and 160.
   
• Stained.
   
• Flaking ink.
   
• Originally folio 213v contained a note of sale but is currently obliterated.
   

Extent

213 folios; 213 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Latter Prophets. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 4708.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Jonah begins a new column and Amos opens a new leaf. The words and passages omitted by the original scribe supplied in the margin. Indications of the beginning and end of the Haftarot. Some masoretic notes. A vellum piece pasted at the back of the manuscript with a following note: נביאים אחרונים כתיבת יד רבינו תם.

Script

Sefardi square script of the 12th or 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Salomon da Costa, presented by him to the British Museum, 1759.
   

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 — Isaiah
• fol. 48v — Jeremiah
• fol. 112v — Ezekiel
• fol. 168v — Hosea
• fol. 176r — Joel
• fol. 179r — Amos
• fol. 185r — Obadiah
• fol. 186r — Jonah
• fol. 188r — Micah
• fol. 192v — Nahum
• fol. 194v — Habakuk
• fol. 196v — Zephaniah
• fol. 199r — Haggai
• fol. 200v — Zechariah
• fol. 210v — Malachi