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Title

Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2091
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2091
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

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

Notes

• Lacuna after folio 190 due to a missing bifolio from the middle of quire xxiv (the missing text: Isaiah 38:9-42:4).
   
• Notes in Latin with some Greek on the content (early modern) (folio 424v).
   
• Small pieces of leather are glued to the parchment to mark the beginning of each biblical book.
   

Extent

424 folios; 424 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600 (dated: 1524). Stamped vellum over wooden boards, with brass clasps, corners, and bosses.

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 27; Uniform layout. Judges, Ezekiel, Obadiah and Nahum commence a new column; Jeremiah, Hosea, Ruth and Daniel open a new leaf. The first word of each book is written in large ornamental characters. At the beginning of different books the masorah is written in ornamental designs. The catchwords are enclosed within a pen and ink design. The running titles of the books are written in cursive German characters in the upper left corner of the recto of each book. The leaves are numbered with ordinary ciphers in the lower right-hand corner of each verso and the Latin titles of the books and the numbers of the chapters are written at the foot of each recto. In the text, the chapters are numbered with ciphers throughout the whole manuscript. Pricking and ruling (with hard-point on the hair side of the folio) are visible.

Decoration

30 micrographic designs at the beginning of chapters. Carmina figurata on several folios. Catchwords enclosed within pen and ink drawings of figures, usually animals.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated. The 2nd half of the 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum in 1879.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Joshua
• fol. 20r — Judges
• fol. 38v — Samuel
• fol. 84r — Kings
• fol. 132r — Jeremiah
• fol. 172v — Isaiah
• fol. 203r — Ezekiel
• fol. 239r — Hosea
• fol. 243v — Joel
• fol. 245r — Amos
• fol. 249v — Obadiah
• fol. 250r — Jonah
• fol. 251r — Micah
• fol. 254r — Nahum
• fol. 255r — Habakuk
• fol. 256v — Zephaniah
• fol. 258r — Haggai
• fol. 259v — Zechariah
• fol. 265v — Malachi
• fol. 268r — Ruth
• fol. 270v — Psalms
• fol. 309r — Job
• fol. 324r — Proverbs
• fol. 335v — Song of Songs
• fol. 338r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 343r — Lamentations
• fol. 345v — Esther
• fol. 352r — Daniel
• fol. 363r — Ezra
• fol. 380v — Chronicles