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Title:
Prophets and Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
258 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1199
Date Range:
1100-1199
Era:
CE
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Names:
M. Edwin Tross of Paris
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 21161

Prophets and Hagiographa

Contents

Parts of the Prophets and Hagiographa, with vowel-points, accents and masorah parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-258v
Title: Neviʾim u-khetuvim
Title: נביאים וכתובים
Language(s): Hebrew

Masoretic notes are very scarce.

There are some pecularities regarding punctuation and accents, see [Ginsburg_1880] 28.

Filiation: There is a close family similarity between this manuscript and the Reuchlin Codex 3, Karlsruhe - Badische Landesbibliothek ( [Karlsruhe_1892] 3; [Kennicott_1776] 154).
ff. 1r-26v
Title: Samuel

Missing chapters: 1Sam 1:1-20:24

ff. 27r-56v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 56v-94r
Title: Kings
ff. 94r-99r
Title: Ezekiel

Missing chapters: 11:19-to the end of the book

ff. 99r-109r
Title: Isaiah

Missing chapters: 1:1-41:17 (in part)

ff. 109r-112v
Title: Hosea
ff. 112v-114r
Title: Joel
ff. 114r-117r
Title: Amos
ff. 117r-117v
Title: Obadiah
ff. 117v-118v
Title: Jonah
ff. 118v-121r
Title: Micah
ff. 121r-121v
Title: Nahum
ff. 121v-122v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 122v-124r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 124r-125r
Title: Haggai
ff. 125r-130r
Title: Zechariah
ff. 130r-132r
Title: Malachi
ff. 132r-135r
Title: Ruth
ff. 135r-173r
Title: Psalms
ff. 173v-190r
Title: Job
ff. 191r-203v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 203v-208v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 208v-211r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 211v-214v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 215r-225v
Title: Daniel
ff. 226r-231r
Title: Esther

Missing chapters: 9:16 (in part) to the end

ff. 231r-245r
Title: Ezra-Nehemiah

Missing Ezra 1:1-2:69 (in part); 8:24 (in part) to the end; Nehemiah 1:1-1:5 (in part)

ff. 245v-258v
Title: Chronicles

Missing 1Chron. 19:6 (in part) to the end, and the whole of 2Chron.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of approximately 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 258 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 400 × 330 mm.
Dimensions (written): 295 × 235 mm.
Foliation:

258 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Extant quires mostly of 8 leaves.

Quires marked by catchwords on the last page.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and the end, with lacunae after ff. 98, 230 and 234.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 33

Uniform layout.

Visible ruling with a hard-point on the hair side of the folio.

Pricking visible along the inner margin.

No masorah magna in the upper and lower margins.

The notes belonging to masorah have no fixed place, but are written in different parts of the margin of the given page, and sometime in between the columns.

The Haftarot have been frequently marked by a later hand in the margin.

Several omissions provided in the margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated and accentuated, of the 12th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Biblia Hebraica. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 21,161.'

History

Origin: 1100-1199 12th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Edwin Tross of Paris: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 October 1855: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

1855-10-13

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

    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. 116.
    [Kennicott_1776] 201

Bibliography

    [Ginsburg_1880] Christian D Ginsburg (Christian David). 'The Massorah Compiled from Manuscripts, Alphabetically and Lexically Arranged by C. D. Ginsburg המסורה על פי כתבי יד עתיקים אשר נקבצו ... ביד כריסטיאן דוד גינצבורנ.'London-85, 1880.
    [Karlsruhe_1892] Grossherzogliche Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek. 'Die Handschriften Der Grossherzoglich Badischen Hof- Und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.'Karlsruhe: Vvon Groos, 1892.
    [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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