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Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5956
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5956
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

The Bible, with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with masorah parva.

Notes

• Usage stains.
   
• Dirt entries at places.
   
• Folio 1r: a short list of books in late cursive hand.
   

Extent

415 folios; 415 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600. Black leather, gold tooled ('Joseph Simpson, New York, America'). Boxed. Spine: 'Old Testament. Hebrew. Kennicott 144. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5956.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 32; Uniform layout. Complete hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Masorah parva given in the outer margin. The masoretic rubric registering the number of verses placed at the end of most books. Running titles. Gilt edges.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive script, with vowel-points and accents, of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Benjamin Kennicott
   
• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum through M. Levy on 17 April 1901: inscribed, folio [418r] (fse003r).
   

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. 1v — Genesis
• fol. 27r — Exodus
• fol. 48v — Leviticus
• fol. 63v — Numbers
• fol. 85v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 106r — Joshua
• fol. 118v — Judges
• fol. 131v — Samuel
• fol. 161r — Kings
• fol. 192r — Isaiah
• fol. 214r — Jeremiah
• fol. 242v — Ezekiel
• fol. 266v — Minor Prophets
• fol. 286r — Ruth
• fol. 288r — Psalms
• fol. 322r — Job
• fol. 337v — Proverbs
• fol. 351v — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 355r — Song of Songs
• fol. 357r — Lamentations
• fol. 359r — Daniel
• fol. 367r — Ezra-Nehemiah
• fol. 379r — Esther
• fol. 383r — Chronicles