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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 199
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Typical of central European Ashkenazi manuscripts of the middle and late seventeenth century, MS 199 is
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B351
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
    • He is known as one of the most productive Jewish manuscript artists in Northern Germany.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 659
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb
    • Abstract: This is a halakhic manuscript guiding
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 1380
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    jrb, heb
    • The commentary on Song of Songs is preceded by a rhymed Hebrew prologue.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B62
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1728
    Language
    Hebrew
    • At the end of the manuscript, there is a text by the corrector, Isaac Saruk, who praised the precision
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, friedberg MSS 5-011
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1459
    Language
    Hebrew
    • 1983, p. 198, examination under ultra-violet light reveals a different date, but the original date is
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 195
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1511
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Layout: Text is written in one column, with headings in large initial words.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 6
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb
    • Pharaoh is bare-headed; two of his men are being intimate.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 190
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1400–1599
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Layout: Text is written in one column; with headings in large initial words.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 1497
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, jrb
    • According to Moses Gaster this is an eighteenth-century Moroccan manuscript.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B133
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1615
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Ari is the Hebrew word for “lion”, but should be understood here as an abbreviation of the copyist’s
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS Add 1
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, arc
    • Layout: The layout is composite: the main biblical text is written in one
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 3
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • This manuscript is of great significance due to a cycle of sixty full-page illustrations from the Book
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B235
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
    • In contrast to many others, this exemplar is decorated with an illustrated title page.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 1
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1494
    Language
    Hebrew
    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 32
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb
    • The work is preceded by several prefaces by the author himself and by Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 4
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 118
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    yid, heb, ger
    • Layout: Layout throughout the codex is irregular and leading close to the
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 2
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1494
    Language
    Hebrew
    • the end of the last volume (Vol. 4) of this Hebrew Bible with Masoretic comments (textual criticism) is