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Or 5956
Title:
Hebrew Bible
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
415 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Benjamin Kennicott
M. Levy
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5956

Hebrew Bible

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-415v
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך

At the end of the different books are masoretic rubrics recording the number of verses, etc. (often partially and in a few cases entirely erased).

Appended is Benjamin Kennicott's description of the manuscript, and a letter to the former owner of the manuscript, Mr Simpson, who agreed to lend it to Kennicott (dated at Oxford, March 4, 1770, primarily addressed to the Reverend Dr Cooper, President of King's College, New York, America).

ff. 1v-27r
Title: Genesis
ff. 27r-48v
Title: Exodus
ff. 48v-63v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 63v-85v
Title: Numbers
ff. 85v-105r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 106r-118v
Title: Joshua
ff. 118v-131v
Title: Judges
ff. 131v-161r
Title: Samuel

Not divided into two books.

ff. 161r-192r
Title: Kings

Not divided into two books.

ff. 192r-214r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 214r-242v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 242v-266v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 266v-286r
Title: Minor Prophets
ff. 286r-288r
Title: Ruth
ff. 288r-322r
Title: Psalms
ff. 322r-337v
Title: Job
ff. 337v-351v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 351v-355r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 355r-357r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 357r-359r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 359r-367r
Title: Daniel
ff. 367r-379r
Title: Ezra-Nehemiah
ff. 379r-383r
Title: Esther
ff. 383r-415v
Title: Chronicles

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the late 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 415 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

415 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Usage stains.

Dirt entries at places.

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.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Folio 1r: a short list of books in late cursive hand.

Binding

Pre-1600. Black leather, gold tooled ('Joseph Simpson, New York, America'). Boxed.

Spine: 'Old Testament. Hebrew. Kennicott 144. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5956.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Benjamin Kennicott (b. 1718, d. 1783), English biblical scholar: his description of the manuscript appended (a paper sheet affixed on folio [416]). See [Kennicott_1776] 144.

Purchased by the British Museum through M. Levy on 17 April 1901: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)r.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5956 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    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. 1140.
    [Kennicott_1776] 144

Bibliography

    [Kennicott_1776] Benjamin Kennicott. 'Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum : Cum Variis Lectionibus / Edidit Benjaminus Kennicott.'Oxonii: E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1776.

Funding of Cataloguing

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