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Title:
Prophets and Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
316 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
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CE
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Names:
Abraham ben Judah ha-Kohen
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
Issakhar bar Eliezer
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Add MS 9398

Prophets and Hagiographa

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2v-316v
Title: Nevi'im u-Khetuvim
Title: נביאים וכתובים

The Hagiographa do not include the Five Scrolls.

ff. 2v-17v
Title: Joshua
ff. 17v-32r
Title: Judges

Marginal notes, mainly midrashic commentaries, have been added by a later hand, e.g. ff. 17r-19v.

ff. 32r-66r
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on f. 51r.

ff. 66r-101v
Title: Kings

2Kings start on f. 84v.

ff. 102r-132v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 133r-159r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 159r-183r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 183r-186v
Title: Hosea
ff. 186v-188r
Title: Joel
ff. 188r-191r
Title: Amos
ff. 191r-191r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 191r-192r
Title: Jonah
ff. 192r-194v
Title: Micah
ff. 194v-195r
Title: Nahum
ff. 195r-196r
Title: Habakuk
ff. 196r-197r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 197r-198r
Title: Haggai
ff. 198r-202v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 202v-204r
Title: Malachi
ff. 205v-235v
Title: Psalms
ff. 235v-245v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 245v-257v
Title: Job
ff. 257v-266r
Title: Daniel
ff. 266r-280r
Title: Ezra

Nehemiah starts folio 272r.

ff. 280r-316v
Title: Chronicles

2Chronicles starts f. 296v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 316 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 483 × 368 mm.
Foliation:

316 folios.

Ff. 204v and 205r are blank.

Collation

40 quires: i-xi8; xii10; xiii9; xiv-xvi8; xvii7; xviii-xxxv8; xxxvi6; xxxvii-xxxix8; xl2.

Catchwords on the last page of the quire.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 34

Judges, Kings, Isaiah and Joel commence a new column; Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Psalms open a new leaf.

The first word of each book is written in large characters.

Masorah magna occupies two lines in the upper and three lines in the lower margin.

Pricking and ruling (with hard-point on the hair side of the folio) are visible.

The chapters and verses are numbered in Roman and Arabic ciphers, but not throughout the whole manuscript.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 13th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Abraham ben Judah ha-Kohen; his inscription, partially illegible, f. 113v, with a date of 2 Sivan 196 (1436).

Latin inscription on a paper flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 2r).

Dated inscription, 1v: Memoranda relative to the ten Hebrew manuscripts, late the property of the Reverend John van der Hagen', of which the present manuscript is the first; 16 April 1832, Haydon Hall, Pinner, Middlesex.

Issakhar bar Eliezer; his inscription, partially illegible, f. 316v.

1834

Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: his bookplate with Greek inscription: ‘ho theos agape estin’(inner upper cover); purchased for his library in 1823 in Utrecht. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Additional 9398-9407, see George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 119, 120, 70, 71, 73, 81, 143, 172.), was acquired by the British Museum in 1834, once the property of the Hagen family and then of Adam Clarke.

Record Sources

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

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Bibliography

    A Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the European and Asiatic Manuscripts in the Library of the late Dr. Adam Clarke ... Illustrated by facsimiles of curious illuminations, drawings, &c. By J. B. B. Clarke (London: John Murray), pp. 111-115.
    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 119.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL