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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:
249 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Names:
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
Shelomoh
Ya῾aḳov ben Yo᾿ets
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Prophets and Hagiographa

Contents

Parts of the Prophets and the Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-249v
Title: Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim
Title: נביאים וכתובים
Colophon: חזק ונתחזק שלמה הסופר לא יוזק. f. 178r
ff. 2r-32r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 32r-57v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 57v-62r
Title: Hosea
ff. 62r-63v
Title: Joel
ff. 63v-67r
Title: Amos
ff. 67r-67v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 67v-69r
Title: Jonah
ff. 69r-71r
Title: Micah
ff. 71r-72r
Title: Nahum
ff. 72r-73v
Title: Habakkuk
ff. 73v-74v
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 74v-76r
Title: Haggai
ff. 76r-81v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 81v-84r
Title: Malachi
ff. 84r-86v
Title: Ruth
ff. 86v-89r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 89r-94v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 94v-97v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 97v-103v
Title: Esther
ff. 103v-147v
Title: Psalms
ff. 147v-162r
Title: Proverbs
ff. 162r-179r
Title: Job
ff. 179r-191v
Title: Daniel
ff. 191v-211r
Title: Ezra

Nehemiah starts on f. 199v.

ff. 211r-249v
Title: Chronicles

Missing chapters 16:5-28:9; 36:12-23.

2Chronicles starts on f. 232v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of approximately 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 249 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 450 × 335 mm.
Foliation:

249 folios (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Originally 32 quires of 8 leaves.

Catchwords on the last page of the quire.

Condition

There is a lacuna after f. 242.

Manuscript is also defective at the end and folio 155 is only partially preserved.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

The first word in Isaiah and Hagiographa is written in large ornamental characters. In the other prophetical books the blank space reserved for the first word has not been filled up.

The number of Psalms is 159.

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.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, main text is punctuated, masorah is unpunctuated. Shelomoh, inscribed with his name in the scribal formula on ff. 83r, 178v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Yahya al-Shaihani. Al-Wazir. Ikhtilaf. Al-Aimman. Arabic. BK. XII. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9399.'

History

Origin: 13th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov ben Yo᾿ets; his inscription within the initial word of the Song of Songs, folio 86v.

Dated inscription and memorandum on paper fly-leaf, f. 1r, 4894 (1136, antedated).

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

    [Clarke_1835] 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. 120.

Bibliography

    [Clarke_1835] Clarke, Adam. 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. London: John Murray, 1835.

Funding of Cataloguing

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