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Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5721
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5721
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

The book of Kings and the Latter Prophets, accentuated and punctuated, with scanty masorah parva.

Extent

165 folios; 165 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Black, the Harley coat of arms in the centre.

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Ezekiel, Amos and Jonah open a new column, and Isaiah commences a new leaf. The chapters have been numbered in ordinary figures by a later hand, partly in ink and partly in pencil. There is number of masoretic notes at the end of each book. The beginning and end of Hafṭarot have occasionally been marked in the margin by a later hand.

Script

Sefardi square script of 13th or 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

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. 1r — Kings
• fol. 39r — Isaiah
• fol. 72r — Jeremiah
• fol. 113v — Ezekiel
• fol. 149r — Hosea
• fol. 154r — Joel
• fol. 156v — Amos
• fol. 160v — Obadiah
• fol. 161v — Jonah
• fol. 162v — Micah