Aleppo Codex

Only a few pages from this tenth- or eleventh-century decorated Pentateuch survive. The parchment pages present the biblical text surrounded by Masoretic notes in micrography, bringing together two…

This intricately decorated vellum Pentateuch was produced in Persia. In addition to the Masorah magna and parva (see Masoretes, “Masorah”), this manuscript contains the Aramaic Targum Onkelos, here…

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

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…

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…