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Title

Tana"kh (תנ"ך)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 15250
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15250
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Catalonia, Spain

Summary

Bible (the Duke of Sussex's Catalan Bible) with masorah magna and parva

Notes

• Note of birth: Joseph, the brother of a previous owner was born on 15 Nisan 5253 [1493] (folio 437r).
   
• Illegible Hebrew inscription (folio 1r).
   

Extent

437 folios; 437 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. 18th-century Italian red velvet binding on wood boards, with copper centrepiece and cornerpieces and remains of clasps. Spine: 'Biblia Sacra Hebraica in Membrana. Mus. Brit. Jure. Emptionis. 15, 250.'

Layout

Columns: 2 3; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 31; Uniform layout. Ruling and pricking are visible. Numerous decorations: 2 full-page miniatures of the Temple implements, masoretic lists in architectural frames, masorah in micrographic design. Masorah magna usually occupies two lines of the upper and three lines of the lower margin of each page. It is frequently written in the form of ornamental design, often that of a candlestick. Exodus, Numbers, Jeremiah, Malachi, Psalms, Song of Songs, Esther and Ezra-Nehemiah begin a new column, and Leviticus and Proverbs begin a new leaf.

Script

Sefardi square script, third quarter of the 14th century, punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed (inner front cover); his sale 31 July 1844, lot 101: inscribed (folio 437v), purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller for £41. English inscription, 19th century: 'The date assigned to this MS by Mr Pettigrew (Bibl. Suss. i. p. xii. No. 2) and marked on the binding is erroneous and arises from his having mistaken the note at the end of the volume for the date of the copy whereas it refers only to the birthday of the son of a former possessor of the MS' (folio [438v]).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 5v — Genesis
• fol. 32v — Exodus
• fol. 56r — Leviticus
• fol. 72v — Numbers
• fol. 95v — Deuteronomy
• fol. 116v — Joshua
• fol. 131v — Judges
• fol. 145v — Samuel
• fol. 180r — Kings
• fol. 215r — Isaiah
• fol. 239r — Jeremiah
• fol. 270v — Ezekiel
• fol. 297r — Hosea
• fol. 300v — Joel
• fol. 302r — Amos
• fol. 305r — Obadiah Jonah
• fol. 306r — Micah
• fol. 308r — Nahum
• fol. 309r — Habakuk
• fol. 310r — Zephaniah
• fol. 311r — Hagai
• fol. 312r — Zechariah
• fol. 316v — Malachi
• fol. 317v — Ruth
• fol. 319v — Psalms
• fol. 346v — Job
• fol. 358r — Proverbs
• fol. 367r — Ecclesiastes
• fol. 371v — Song of Songs
• fol. 373r — Lamentations
• fol. 375v — Daniel
• fol. 384r — Esther
• fol. 388v — Ezra
• fol. 402r — Chronicles