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MS. Heb. a. 1

Physical Description

Ff. 13

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought through the Rev. G. J. Chester, 1890-1 (from the Genizah).

MS. Heb. a. 1/1

Contents

Exodus xxxiii. 12 to xxxvii. 11

six columns, probably taken from a scroll used in schools; there are corrections between the lines, no Targum, nor vowel points.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Span. squ. char.; 6 coll., vellum.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought through the Rev. G. J. Chester, 1890-1 (from the Genizah).

MS. Heb. a. 1/2

Contents

Biblical fragments

The two Masorahs, sometimes fuller than in the editions (see fol. 3 to xxi. 2). At end of 23rd (MS. 22nd) Psalm are the words עד כאן ביום ראשון; all with vowel points and accents.

Language(s): Hebrew
α. fol. 3
2 Chronicles
a.

(fol. 3) 2 Chronicles xx. 34 (הראשנים) to xxv. 15 (את עמם)

b.

(fol. 6) 2 Chronicles xxix. 1 (וחמש) to xxxii. 24 (יחזקיהו)

β. fol. 9
Esther ix. 12 (לאסתר) to end
γ. fol. 9b
Psalms

The divisions are marked for the Psalms, no number for Ps. i: Ps. ii is in the MS. i. Many omissions supplied on the margins by a later hand.

a.

(fol. 9b) Psalms i. 1 to vii. 6 (חיי)

b.

(fol. 11) Psalms xvii. 12 (כאריה) to xxviii. 3, MS. xxvii (ועם).

Physical Description

Germ. squ. char. (probably end of the 12th century) ; 3 coll., fol., vellum.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought through the Rev. G. J. Chester, 1890-1 (from the Genizah).

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. ii, by Adolf Neubauer and Arthur Ernest Cowley, Oxford 1906, No. 2613.

Availability

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