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Title

Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 9399
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9399
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

Parts of the Prophets and the Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Notes

• There is a lacuna after folio 242.
   
• Manuscript is also defective at the end and folio 155 is only partially preserved.
   
• Ya῾aḳov ben Yo᾿ets; his inscription within the initial word of the Song of Songs, folio 86v.
   
• Dated inscription and memorandum on paper fly-leaf, 1r, 4894 (1136, antedated).
   

Extent

249 folios; 249 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Yahya al-Shaihani. Al-Wazir. Ikhtilaf. Al-Aimman. Arabic. BK. XII. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9399.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. The first word in Isaiah and Hagiographa is written in large ornamental characters. In the other prophetical books the blank space reserved for the first word has not been filled up. The number of Psalms is 159. 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.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated. Shelomoh, inscribed with his name in the scribal formula on folio 83r, 178v.

Provenance

• 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 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. 32r — Ezekiel
• fol. 57v — Hosea
• fol. 62r — Joel
• fol. 63v — Amos
• fol. 67r — Obadiah
• fol. 67v — Jonah
• fol. 69r — Micah
• fol. 71r — Nahum
• fol. 72r — Habakkuk
• fol. 73v — Zephaniah
• fol. 74v — Haggai
• fol. 76r — Zechariah
• fol. 81v — Malachi
• fol. 84r — Ruth
• fol. 86v — Song of Songs
• fol. 89r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 94v — Lamentations
• fol. 97v — Esther
• fol. 103v — Psalms
• fol. 147v — Proverbs
• fol. 162r — Job
• fol. 179r — Daniel
• fol. 191v — Ezra
• fol. 211r — Chronicles