Description of British Library, Or 2091: Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2022-11-30 2022-11-30 These images and the content of British Library Or 2091: Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 2091: Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. 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. Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Or 2091 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2091 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Former and Latter Prophets and Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva. Hebrew Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim (נביאים וכתובים) 1r Joshua 20r Judges 38v Samuel 84r Kings 132r Jeremiah 172v Isaiah 203r Ezekiel 239r Hosea 243v Joel 245r Amos 249v Obadiah 250r Jonah 251r Micah 254r Nahum 255r Habakuk 256v Zephaniah 258r Haggai 259v Zechariah 265v Malachi 268r Ruth 270v Psalms 309r Job 324r Proverbs 335v Song of Songs 338r Ecclesiastes 343r Lamentations 345v Esther 352r Daniel 363r Ezra 380v Chronicles

Parchment

 424 folios; 424 folios 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. Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated. The 2nd half of the 13th century. 30 micrographic designs at the beginning of chapters. Carmina figurata on several folios. Catchwords enclosed within pen and ink drawings of figures, usually animals.

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

Between 1250 and 1299

Germany Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum in 1879.