Manuscript Summary:The importance of the Braginsky Pentateuch for the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is comparable to that of MS L44a of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, copied in Toledo in 1241. The Braginsky manuscript was copied in Spain, most likely in the second half of the fourteenth century, based on what was considered the original Hillel Codex. No trace of an original Hillel Codex has survived; it may have been used for the last time for a Pentateuch edition of Guadalajara, Spain, shortly before 1492. In truth, it is not clear whether the Hillel Codex ever existed, or whether it was a legend known from secondary sources. The manuscript is still bound in an old blind-tooled leather binding with (later?) brass ornamentation and clasps.(red)
Online Since: 10/13/2016
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B119
Parchment · 163 ff. · 19.5 x 15 cm · Spain · second half of the 14th century
Pentateuch based on the <i>Hillel Codex</i>
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Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B119, Front cover – Pentateuch based on the <i>Hillel Codex</i> (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bc/b-0119)
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