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Add MS 9402

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032-003376873
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Add MS 9402
Title:
Prophets and Hagiographa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
229 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_9402 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1286
End Date:
1286
Date Range:
1286
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Binyamin bar Yo᾿el
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
John van der Hagen
Wolf Leib
Ya῾aḳov ben Ya῾aḳov Sason
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 9402

Prophets and Hagiographa

Contents

Prophets and Hagiographa, punctuated, accompanied with masorah magna and parva.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-229v
Title: Neviʾim u-Khetuvim
Title: נביאים וכתובים

This is the second of the two uniform volumes, the first being Add MS 9401, 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. 70..

This volume contains parts of Hagiographa and Prophets (parts of Jeremiah and Isaiah only).

Colophon: אני יצחק בר' יהודה הסופר כתבתי זה החומש כתובים ירמיה לר' מרדכי בר' ... בשנת חמשת אלפים וארבעים וששה לבריאת עולם ועשרים ושנים לירח אלול ביום חמישי ה'מקו'ם' יזכהו להורישו לבניו ולבני בניו עד סוף כל הדורות אמן אמן אמן סלה: ברוך הוא הנותן ליעף כח: הוא הנקרש והנקדם ברוך אשר יצר את האדם: חזק ונתחזק הסופר לא [יזק]: f. 229r
ff. 3r-59v
Title: Psalms
ff. 60r-81v
Title: Job
ff. 82r-100v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 101r-116v
Title: Daniel
ff. 117r-142v
Title: Ezra
ff. 143r-206v
Title: Chronicles
ff. 207r-227v
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 227v-229r
Title: Isaiah

Physical Description

Parchment codex of 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 229 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 386 × 304 mm.
Foliation:

229 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

29 quires of mostly 8 leaves.

Quires marked with catchwords on the last page.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and ruling with hard-point.

Writing in three columns, with superlinear masoretic punctuation and accents.

Initial word of each book is written in large ornamental characters.

Masorah magna in two lines at the top of the page and three lines in the lower margin.

A number of masoretic rubrics at the end of the books.

Hand(s)

Square Ashkenazi script of the 13th century.

Additions:

Later addition on the lower margin of folio 59v.

‘חזק’at the end of Chronicles, folio 206v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Bible. Hebrew. Vol. 2. Brit. Mus. Additional 9402.'

History

Origin: 1286 Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov ben Ya῾aḳov Sason: inscribed with his name on folio 229r: לעולם יכתו' אדם שמו על ספרו.

Wolf Leib: inscribed with his name on folio 228v, dated 5378 (1588).

Binyamin bar Yo᾿el: inscribed with his name, in red ink, on folio 229r.

John  van der Hagen; a dedication in a from of a Hebrew poem by Christian Meir on folio 2v, dated in Amsterdam, 1726.

Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: his inscription in Latin (folio 1r); manuscript acquired by him at Utrecht in 1823. His bookplate with Greek inscription: ‘ho theos agape estin’ (folio [i 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 bought by 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

    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. 70.
    [Clarke_1835] 110-117

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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