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Record Id:
032-003367270
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Title:
Prophets
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
213 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1100-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Salomon da Costa
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 4708

Prophets

Contents

The Latter Prophets, accentuated and punctuated.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-213v
Title: Nevi᾿im
Title: נביאים
ff. 1v-48v
Title: Isaiah
ff. 48v-112v
Title: Jeremiah

Wanting chapters 32:7-33:4.

Missing chapters: 32:7-33:4.

ff. 112v-168v
Title: Ezekiel

Wanting chapters 40:27-43:13.

Missing chapters: 40:27-43:13.

ff. 168v-176r
Title: Hosea
ff. 176r-178v
Title: Joel
ff. 179r-185r
Title: Amos
ff. 185r-186r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 186r-188r
Title: Jonah
ff. 188r-192v
Title: Micah
ff. 192v-194v
Title: Nahum
ff. 194v-196v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 196v-199r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 199r-200v
Title: Haggai
ff. 200v-210v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 210v-213v
Title: Malachi

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 12th to 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 213 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 286 mm.
Foliation:

213 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each, originally signed with Hebrew letters at the end and at the beginning, currently trimmed.

Condition

Missing leaves after folio 83 and 160.

Stained.

Flaking ink.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Jonah begins a new column and Amos opens a new leaf.

The words and passages omitted by the original scribe supplied in the margin.

Indications of the beginning and end of the Haftarot.

Some masoretic notes.

A vellum piece pasted at the back of the manuscript with a following note: נביאים אחרונים כתיבת יד רבינו תם.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 12th or 13th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Latter Prophets. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 4708.'

History

Origin: 12th-13th century ; Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

Originally folio 213v contained a note of sale but is currently obliterated.

1759

Salomon da Costa, presented by him to the British Museum, 1759.

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_4708 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    [Kennicott_1776] 126
    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.135

Bibliography

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

Funding of Cataloguing

BL