Bible Codex

Only a few pages from this decorated Pentateuch survive. Decorated with gold, this page shows the Temple and its implements.

Only a few pages from this decorated Pentateuch survive. This page shows the Masoretic notes in micrography, an artistic form unique to Jewish manuscripts in which words of a text are written so as to…

This Judeo-Arabic manuscript of Yefet ben Eli’s commentary on Ezekiel 43, which Yefet composed sometime in the mid-tenth century, was copied in the eleventh century. In keeping with the theme of the…

Completed around 1008/9 for the wealthy Karaite Mevorakh ibn Joseph Ibn Yazdād, the Leningrad Codex of the Hebrew Bible contains Masoretic notes and Tiberian vocalization, and at the end, grammatical…

This parchment codex of a Pentateuch includes both the Targum Onkelos (Aramaic translation) and Masorah magna and parva (see Masoretes, “Masorah”). The manuscript contains striking decorations and…

This magnificently decorated booklet of a single Torah portion (Shelaḥ; Numbers 13–15) was likely produced somewhere in Persia. It is written in charcoal ink, not commonly found in medieval Hebrew…