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Record Id:
032-003367268
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Add MS 15252
Title:
Duke of Sussex Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
477 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15252 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1374
Date Range:
1350-1374
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Prince Augustus Frederick
Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh de Medina
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 15252

'Duke of Sussex Bible'

Contents

The so-called 'Duke of Sussex Bible' with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-477v
Title: תנ"ך
Title: Tana"kh
Title: Hebrew Bible

Pentateuch: folios 1v-116r, Prophets: folios 116v-323r, Hagiographa: folios 323v-477v.

See [Tahan_2007] 130.

ff. 1v-29r
Title: Genesis
ff. 29r-53v
Title: Exodus
ff. 53v-71r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 71r-94v
Title: Numbers
ff. 94v-116v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 116v-131v
Title: Joshua
ff. 131v-146v
Title: Judges
ff. 146v-181v
Title: Samuel
ff. 181v-218v
Title: Kings
ff. 218v-243r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 243r-275r
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 275r-302r
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 302r-305v
Title: Hosea
ff. 305v-307r
Title: Joel
ff. 307r-310r
Title: Amos
ff. 310r-310v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 310v-311v
Title: Jonah
ff. 311v-313v
Title: Micah
ff. 313v-314v
Title: Nahum
ff. 314v-315v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 315v-316v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 316v-317v
Title: Haggai
ff. 317v-322r
Title: Zechariah
ff. 322r-323v
Title: Malachi
ff. 323v-326r
Title: Ruth
ff. 326r-371r
Title: Psalms
ff. 371r-389v
Title: Job
ff. 389v-404v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 404v-406v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 406v-411r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 411r-412r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 412r-413v
Title: Esther
ff. 413v-427r
Title: Daniel
ff. 427r-441r
Title: Ezra
ff. 441r-477v
Title: Chronicles

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the second half of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 477 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200/205 × 150/155 mm.
Foliation:

477 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

60 quires: i-ix8 (folios 1-72), x8 (folios 73-75, 75*, 76-79), xi-xiv8 (folios 80-111), xv4 (folios 112-115), xvi-xlix8 (folios 116-467), lx ten (folios 468-477).

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 45

Written lines: 44

Uniform layout.

Ruling visible at times.

Flesh side and hair side distinguishable.

The masorah magna occupies two lines at the top of the page and three at the bottom of the page. In the lower margin it is written in the form of ornamental patterns (micrography).

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the second half of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 15,252. Plut.'

History

Origin: 1350-1374 3rd quarter of the 14th century Spain (Catalonia?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Shemu᾿el ben Mosheh de Medina (b. 1505, d. 1589), Talmudist from Salonica: inscribed with his name in a purchase note (folio 1r).

Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 477v); [Popper_1969] 100-101& app. 80-84.

Birth entries in Spanish of four sons of an unknown family, 1699, 1700, 1702, 1704 (folio 1r).

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his sale 31 July 1844, lot 103: inscribed (folio 478v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), for £5.

1844-07-31

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15252 (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. 60.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 21; II, figs 328-31.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Illuminations from Hebrew Bibles of Leningrad (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 1990), p. 71.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), p. 170.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 130.

Bibliography

    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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