Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4227
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4227
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

France

Summary

The Bible with masorah magna and parva, with masoretic lists at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript.

Extent

279 folios; 279 folios

Foliation

279 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and a parchment flyleaf at the end).

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Hebrew Bible. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4227.'

Layout

Columns: 3; ruled lines: 45; written lines: 44; Uniform layout. Pricking and ruling are often visible.

Script

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive, probably French, of 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum from Quaritch in March 1891 , folio 279v; probably Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher. Erased inscriptions (presumable in Latin letters), folio 3v (in the lower margin), 5r (upper part).
   

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 — Masoretic list
• fol. 5v — Genesis
• fol. 23r — Exodus
• fol. 37r — Leviticus
• fol. 46v — Numbers
• fol. 60v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 72v — Joshua
• fol. 81r — Judges
• fol. 89r — Samuel
• fol. 108v — Kings
• fol. 131v — Jeremiah
• fol. 152r — Exekiel
• fol. 169v — Isaiah
• fol. 185r — Hosea
• fol. 187r — Joel
• fol. 188r — Amos
• fol. 190r — Obadiah Jonah
• fol. 191r — Micah
• fol. 192r — Nahum
• fol. 192v — Habakuk
• fol. 193v — Zephaniah
• fol. 194r — Haggai
• fol. 194v — Zechariah
• fol. 197v — Malachi
• fol. 199v — Masoretic lists relating to Hagiographa
• fol. 202r — Ruth
• fol. 203r — Psalms
• fol. 221r — Job
• fol. 227v — Proverbs
• fol. 233v — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 235v — Song of Songs
• fol. 236v — Lamentations
• fol. 238r — Esther
• fol. 240v — Daniel
• fol. 245r — Ezra
• fol. 252r — Chronicles
• fol. 272r — Masoretic list.