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Bible Codex
This page, from a decorated Pentateuch, shows Masoretic notes written in micrography, an artistic form unique to Jewish manuscripts in which words of a text are written so as to form a picture or…
Yefet ben Eli, Commentary on Ezekiel 43
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…
Leningrad Codex (Samuel ben Jacob)
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…
Bible Codex
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…
Parashah Booklet
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…
Images of the Temple
These pages from Maimonides’ personal copy of his Judeo-Arabic Commentary on the Mishnah include what may be his own drawings of the Temple in Jerusalem. Maimonides, or his scribe, orients west at the…