Description of British Library, Or 2201: Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 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 2201: Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 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 2201: Tana"kh (תנ"ך). 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. Yosef ben Yudah ben Merwas: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Toledo, Iyyar 5060 [1300] (folio 184r). Erased inscription (folio 4r). Sulaiman ben Shemu᾿el (?) ben Ḥayim: inscribed with his name as the seller in an Arabic purchase note, 1450 (folio 99v). Judeo-Arabic note, partially obliterated (folio 368v). Shalom ben Yosef Ḥayim [ .. ] Levi: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, 18th century (folio 184r). Musi 'n Salem al-Gamal: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, 18th century (folio 184r). Judah 'n Musi: inscribed with his name in an unclear purchase note, undated (folio 186v). Yudah Kamal: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, undated (folio 5r). 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 2201 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2201 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Bible with masorah ('First Ibn Merwas Bible'). Hebrew; Tana"kh (תנ"ך) 1v Masoretic lists 4v Genesis 27v Exodus 48v Leviticus 62v Numbers 82r Deuteronomy 104v Joshua 116r Judges 127v Samuel 155r Kings 189v Isaiah 208v Jeremiah 227r Ezekiel 248v Hosea 251r Joel 252r Amos 254v Obadiah 255r Jonah 255v Micah 257v Nahum 258r Habakkuk 259r Zephaniah 259v Haggai 260v Zechariah 264r Malachi 265r Psalms 290r Job 299v Proverbs 307v Ruth 309r Song of Songs 310v Ecclesiastes 314r Lamentations 316r Esther 319v Daniel 326v Ezra 338v Chronicles

Parchment

 368 folios; 368 folios Columns: 3; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 32; Folio 1 is cut off most part. Folios 1 and 4 are later additions. Complete ruling with hard-point. Pricking in outer and inner margins, quire by quire, on recto. Uniform layout, last line of text written ouside ruling. Heading on each leaf. Hebrew foliation from folio 5, starting with 2 until the end of the Pentateuch (folio 99). In the colophon (folio 184), the name of the patron has been erased. The original date 5060 [1300] has been erased and overwritten as 5006 [1246]. The same scribe copied two other bibles in Toledo: Sassoon Collection (MS 508 dated 1307, MS 1208 dated 1334). Numerous decorations: full-page miniature of the Temple implements, 5 full borders of geometric design, masorah in the margins written in microghraphical form, 6 full-page panels of masorah magna in micrographical design, numerous decorated parashah signs. Masorah magna occupies two lines at the top and three lines at the bottom of each page. Joshua, Isaiah, Psalms, and Chronicles begin a new leaf, and Jeremiah begins a new column. Sefardi square script of the beginning of 14th century, punctuated.

Post-1600. White parchment binding, black tooled. Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2201.'

1300

SpainCastileToledo Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum in 1879.