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Prophets and Hagiographa
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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424 folios
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Start Date:
1250
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1299
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Or 2091

Prophets and Hagiographa

Contents

Former and Latter Prophets and Hagiographa, punctuated and accentuated, with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-424v
Title: Nevi᾿im u-Khetuvim
Title: נביאים וכתובים

Originally part of a complete Bible.

An image of the fore-edge is displayed as folio i recto.

"ברוך נותן ליעף כח חזק ונתחזק הסופר לא יזק. f. 424r "

30 micrographic designs at the beginning of chapters. f. 1r, 20r, 38v, 84r, 132r, 172v, 203r, 239r, 243v, 245r, 249v, 250r, 251r, 254r, 255r, 256v, 258r, 259v, 265v, 268r, 270v, 309r, 324r, 335v, 338r, 343r, 345v, 352r, 363r, 380r

Carmina figurata on several folios. f. 130v, 131r, 131v, 350v, 351r, 351v

Catchwords enclosed within pen and ink drawings of figures, usually animals.

ff. 1r-20r
Title: Joshua
ff. 20r-38v
Title: Judges
ff. 38v-84r
Title: Samuel

2Samuel starts on folio 63v.

ff. 84r-131v
Title: Kings

2Kings starts on folio 108v.

ff. 132r-172v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 172v-203r
Title: Isaiah

Missing chapters: 38:9-42:4.

ff. 203r-238v
Title: Ezekiel
ff. 239r-243v
Title: Hosea
ff. 243v-245r
Title: Joel
ff. 245r-249v
Title: Amos
ff. 249v-250r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 250r-251r
Title: Jonah
ff. 251r-254r
Title: Micah
ff. 254r-255r
Title: Nahum
ff. 255r-256v
Title: Habakuk
ff. 256v-258r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 258r-259v
Title: Haggai
ff. 259v-265v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 265v-268r
Title: Malachi
ff. 268r-270v
Title: Ruth
ff. 270v-309r
Title: Psalms
ff. 309r-324r
Title: Job
ff. 324r-335v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 335v-338r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 338r-343r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 343r-345v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 345v-352r
Title: Esther
ff. 352r-363r
Title: Daniel
ff. 363r-380v
Title: Ezra

Nehemiah starts on folio 370v.

ff. 380v-423v
Title: Chronicles

2Chronicles starts on folio 399v.

References

Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
Marc Michael Epstein, Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), p. 153.
Marc Michael Epstein, Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), p. 153.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 133-35.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of the 2nd half of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 424 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 310 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260/245 × 210 mm.
Foliation:

424 folios (the upper and the lower inside covers are parchment leaves with Latin text).

Collation

53 quires: i8+1 (folios 1-9), ii8 (folios 10-17), iii8 (folios18-25), iv8 (folios 26-33), v8 (folios 34-41), vi8 (folios 42-49), vii8 (folios 50-57), viii8 (folios 58-65), ix8 (folios 66-73), x8 (folios 74-81), xi8 (folios 82-89), xii8 (folios 90-97), xiii8 (folios 98-105), xiv8 (folios 106-113), xv8 (folios 114-121), xvi10 (folios 122-131), xvii8 (folios 132-139), xviii8 (folios 140-147), xix8 (folios 148-155), xx8 (folios 156-163), xxi8 (folios 164-171), xxii8 (folios 172-179), xxiii8 (folios 180-187), xxiv8-2 (folios 188-193), xxv8 (folios 194-201), xxvi8 (folios 202-209), xxvii8 (folios 210-217), xxviii8 (folios 218-225), xxix8 (folios 226-233), xxx8 (folios 234-241), xxxi8 (folios 242-249), xxxii8 (folios 250-257), xxxiii8 (folios 258-265), xxxiv10 (folios 266-275), xxxv8 (folios 276-283), xxxvi8 (folios 284-291), xxxvii8 (folios 292-299), xxxviii8 (folios 300-307), xxxix8 (folios 308-315), xl8 (folios 316-323), xli8 (folios 324-331), xlii8 (folios 332-339), xliii8 (folios 340-347), xliv12 (folios 348-359), xlv8 (folios 360-367), xlvi8 (folios 368-375), xlvii8 (folios 376-383), xlviii8 (folios 384-391), xlix8 (folios 392-399), l8 (folios 400-407), li8 (folios 408-415), lii6-3 (folios 416-418), liii6 (folios 419-424).

Catchwords on the last page of the quire.

Condition

Lacuna after folio 190 due to a missing bifolio from the middle of quire xxiv (the missing text: Isaiah 38:9-42:4).

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Judges, Ezekiel, Obadiah and Nahum commence a new column; Jeremiah, Hosea, Ruth and Daniel open a new leaf.

The first word of each book is written in large ornamental characters.

At the beginning of different books the masorah is written in ornamental designs.

The catchwords are enclosed within a pen and ink design.

The running titles of the books are written in cursive German characters in the upper left corner of the recto of each book.

The leaves are numbered with ordinary ciphers in the lower right-hand corner of each verso and the Latin titles of the books and the numbers of the chapters are written at the foot of each recto.

In the text, the chapters are numbered with ciphers throughout the whole manuscript.

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. The 2nd half of the 13th century.

Decoration

30 micrographic designs at the beginning of chapters. Carmina figurata on several folios. Catchwords enclosed within pen and ink drawings of figures, usually animals.

f. 1r, 20r, 38v, 84r, 132r, 172v, 203r, 239r, 243v, 245r, 249v, 250r, 251r, 254r, 255r, 256v, 258r, 259v, 265v, 268r, 270v, 309r, 324r, 335v, 338r, 343r, 345v, 352r, 363r, 380r 30 micrographic designs at the beginning of chapters.

f. 130v, 131r, 131v, 350v, 351r, 351v Carmina figurata on several folios.

Catchwords enclosed within pen and ink drawings of figures, usually animals.

Additions:

Notes in Latin with some Greek on the content (early modern) (folio 424v).

Binding

Pre-1600 (dated: 1524).

Stamped vellum over wooden boards, with brass clasps, corners, and bosses.

Accompanying Material

Small pieces of leather are glued to the parchment to mark the beginning of each biblical book.

History

Origin: 1250-1299 2nd half of the 13th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the British Museum in 1879.

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=Or_2091 (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. 117.
    [BL_2007] 106

Bibliography

    [BL_2007] Sacred (Exhibition) (2007 : British Library). 'Sacred : Books of the Three Faiths : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Edited by John Reeve ; Essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, F.E. Peters ; Catalogue Contributions by Colin F. Baker ... [et Al.].'London: British Library, 2007.

Funding of Cataloguing

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