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Title

Nevi'im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 9398
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9398
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Former and Latter Prophets and Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Extent

316 folios; 316 folios

Foliation

Folios 204v and 205r are blank.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 35; written lines: 34; Judges, Kings, Isaiah and Joel commence a new column; Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Psalms open a new leaf. The first word of each book is written in large characters. Masorah magna occupies two lines in the upper and three lines in the lower margin. Pricking and ruling (with hard-point on the hair side of the folio) are visible. The chapters and verses are numbered in Roman and Arabic ciphers, but not throughout the whole manuscript.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated.

Provenance

• Abraham ben Judah ha-Kohen
   
• Issakhar bar Eliezer
   
• Acquisition: Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: his bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin (inner upper cover); purchased for his library in 1823 in Utrecht. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Additional 9398-9407, see George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 119, 120, 70, 71, 73, 81, 143, 172.), was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then of Adam Clarke.
   

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. 17v — Judges
• fol. 32r — Samuel
• fol. 66r — Kings
• fol. 102r — Jeremiah
• fol. 133r — Ezekiel
• fol. 159r — Isaiah
• fol. 183r — Hosea
• fol. 186v — Joel
• fol. 188r — Amos
• fol. 191r — Obadiah Jonah
• fol. 192r — Micah
• fol. 194v — Nahum
• fol. 195r — Habakuk
• fol. 196r — Zephaniah
• fol. 197r — Haggai
• fol. 198r — Zechariah
• fol. 202v — Malachi
• fol. 205v — Psalms
• fol. 235v — Proverbs
• fol. 245v — Job
• fol. 257v — Daniel
• fol. 266r — Ezra
• fol. 280r — Chronicles