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Title

Nevi᾿im (נביאים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5774
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5774
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain, N.Castellon d'Ampurias

Summary

Former and Latter Prophets.

Notes

• Hebrew inscriptions (folios 1r, 24r, 169r, 323r); Narkiss reads them as the following: Avraham, Makhluf, Obadyah ha-Leṿi Yoshuʿa (see 115).
   
• John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain to the Levant Company at Constantinople: in his collection (no. IX.): inscribed (folio fse003r). His manuscripts were acquired for the Harley Collection for £300 in 1716. Edward Harley: bought by him, together with John Covel's other manuscripts, for £300 on 27 Feb. 1715/6 (see ).
   

Extent

323 folios; 323 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Harleian binding. Black buckram. Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Tom II. Brit. Mus. Harley 5774.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; The beginning of Hafṭarot are indicated in the margin of the prophetical books. Masorah, frequently written in the form of ornamental designs, occupies two lines in the upper margin and three lines in lower margin of the page. Several masoretic rubrics at the end of most of the books. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Parallel Hebrew foliation on the verso side. Unfoliated blank leaf after folio 322. Watermark, folio [fs003], of a of a crowned coat of arms (presumably with a fleur-de-lis and with the monogram 'WR'), similar to 1784 . Watermark, folios [fse004], [fse005], of the monogram 'IHS' with a cross, similar to 1785a.

Decoration

Numerous micrographical designs.

Script

Sefardi square script, punctuated. ʿEzra ben Yaʿaḳov ben Aderet: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Castellon d'Ampurias, Elul 5156 (see volume II, Harley MS 5775, 217v, 121).

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. 1v — Joshua
• fol. 24r — Judges
• fol. 46v — Samuel
• fol. 101r — Kings
• fol. 158v — Isaiah
• fol. 196v — Jeremiah
• fol. 245r — Ezekiel
• fol. 288v — Hosea
• fol. 294r — Joel
• fol. 296v — Amos
• fol. 301r — Obadiah
• fol. 302r — Jonah
• fol. 303v — Micah
• fol. 306v — Nahum
• fol. 308r — Habakuk
• fol. 309v — Zephaniah
• fol. 311v — Haggai
• fol. 312v — Zechariah
• fol. 320r — Malachi