Up to date catalogue records for Hebrew manuscripts are maintained in the Hebrew Manuscripts catalogue. Kennicott 3, a rare example of a dated and lavishly illustrated Ashkenazi Pentateuch. Kennicott 1, ‘the Kennicott bible’ a magnificently decorated 15th century Hebrew bible donated to the library by Benjamin Kennicott and MS. The digitized items - most of which were digitized as part of the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project - include MS. Further significant collections of Hebrew manuscripts were added in 18.

was Lot 2664, on the sixth day of the sale (August 2)The. Rabbi David ben Abraham Oppenheim (1664-1736) was the Chief Rabbi of Prague and during his lifetime he had amassed 780 manuscripts and 4,220 printed books in Hebrew, Yiddish and Aramaic, many of which are the only surviving copies. Mr Black's library was sold in London by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, in 1873. In 1829 the Bodleian bought the Oppenheim Library thought to be the most important and magnificent Hebraica collection ever accumulated. The collection contains over 110 valuable Hebrew manuscripts, chiefly on vellum. In the collection there are well over 3,000 individual objects, though for this project we are focusing on. The acquisition in 1817 of the manuscript collection which had belonged to the Venetian Jesuit, Matteo Luigi Canonici, represented the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. British Library Hebrew Manuscript Collection - British Library’s Hebrew manuscripts collection is a vivid testimony to the creativity and intense scribal activities of Eastern and Western Jewish communities spanning over 1,000 years. Among the 212 manuscripts in the Huntington collection is the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (1155-1204) with the author’s signature. In 1692 it purchased the collections of Dr Robert Huntington and Professor Edward Pococke.

In 1929, it appeared for sale in Frankfurt, and was bought by Sassoon for 350 British pounds. The Library’s founder, Thomas Bodley, took a personal interest in Hebrew manuscripts, and after his death, the Library continued to enrich the Hebrew collections. Moses Wilhelm Shapira, a well-known Jerusalem dealer in antiquities and ancient manuscripts, offered to sell fragments of a scroll of Deuteronomy, including the Ten Commandments, to the British Museum, a regular customer. The earliest known Hebrew biblical manuscripts are the Dead Sea Scrolls. The earliest manuscript accessions in Hebrew were received in 1601 and in the first catalogue of the library (1605) there are 58 books with titles in Hebrew script. All fields of traditional Hebrew scholarship are represented in the collection, and the digitized items reflect this diversity. The Bodleian holds what is probably still regarded as the best collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world, alongside an extraordinarily rich collection of early Hebrew and Yiddish printed books. Nearly 800 fully-digitized Hebrew manuscripts and printed books from the medieval and early modern periods.

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