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Title:
Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
337 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
Cornelius Schulting
John van der Hagen
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Add MS 9400

Pentateuch

Contents

Pentateuch with Targum Onḳelos, the Five Scrolls and Hafṭarot, with punctuation and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-337v
Title: Torah, megilot ṿe-hafṭarot
Title: תורה, מגילות והפטרות

The Pentateuch has Hebrew text and Targum in alternate verses.

Masoretic notes are very scarce.

The manuscript has a forged colophon written in semi-cursive script of probably 18th century, followed by a transliteration in square script (f. 273v). Below the transliteration there is a Latin note of ownership.

Colophon: אני יחיאל בר יקובןכתבתי זה הספר בעיר קונשתנתיןאלף ושבע לחורבן הבית שהיא אלף שלוש מאות שבע ושמונים למנין השטרות שהיא שנת ארבע אלפים שמונה מאות שלושים ושש ליצירה [?]. f. 273v
ff. 2v-70r
Title: Genesis
ff. 70r-128r
Title: Exodus
ff. 128r-170r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 170r-223v
Title: Numbers
ff. 223v-273v
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 274r-275r
Title: Notes
ff. 275r-277r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 277r-279r
Title: Ruth
ff. 279r-281v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 282r-286v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 286v-292r
Title: Esther
ff. 292r-337v
Title: Hafṭarot

Hafṭarot of the weekly pericopes and of the feasts and fasts.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 337 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 425 × 343 mm.
Dimensions (written): 290 × 245 mm.
Foliation:

337 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

42 quires: 41 of 8 leaves and the last one of 7 leaves.

Quires marked by ornamented catchwords on the last page.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 28

Ff. 2-5 and 274 added in the 18th century.

Numbers, Song of Songs and Ecclesisates commence a new leaf.

Initial words of Genesis, Song of Songs and Haftarot written in larger letters.

Beginnings of pericopes in the Pentateuch marked in the margin by ornamented פ or פר.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, provided with vowel-points and accents, of the 13th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind-tooled, with clasps.

Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 9400.'

History

Origin: 13th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

John van der Hagen, scholar and pastor in Amsterdam. His inscription in Latin on f. 273v: "haec eadem verba leguntur in hac ipsa pagina ad calcem Pentateuchi, scripta Literis Rabbinicis, fere detritis: quapropter ea iterum describi curavi, Literis Quadratis, ao' Chri' 1726, Aprilis 25. Johannes van der Hagen, pastor Amstelodami. In his verbis, Scriptionis annus triplici aera designatur, et nomen Scribae, atque locus Scriptionis exprintur."

F. 273r, a Latin description of the manuscript headed: "Rev. John van der Hagen's account of this manuscript is as follows."

Cornelius Schulting, scholar and pastor in Amsterdam, his inscription in the lower margin of f. 273v: "A.M. 4836, q est A.C. 1076. Scriptus est hic liber and below it, another van der Hagen's inscription: Haec est manus Cornii Schulting, Pastoris Amstelodamensis, qui annum scriptionis recta notavit, ut patet ex iis, quae hic e regione leguntur et supra descripta sunt."

F. 274r has an English memorandum: "This Latin manuscript was once in the Library of the Rev. Cornelius Schulting, and at this demise was purchased by the Rev. J. v. d. Hagen in 1726. Both were ministers of the reformed religion in Amsterdam: the autographs of both are on the opposite page. The work is written on 334 leaves of vellum, in an Italian  hand: length of the page, 17 inches; breadth, 13 inches and a half. It is one of the oldest Hebrew MSS. known to exist, and has not been collated either by Kennicott or de Rossi. See a further description of this and the other van der Hagen MSS. in my MS. Catalogue."

Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar. His bookplate with Greek inscription: ‘ho theos agape estin’ (back pastedown) and his short description of the manuscript in English on f. [ii verso]. This codex, together with nine other manuscripts (Add MS 9398-9407), 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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Surrogates

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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. 71.

Funding of Cataloguing

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