The Book Before Printing by David Diringer

Author:David Diringer [David Diringer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

The earliest Hebrew manuscript containing a precise statement of its date, a statement that evidently can be trusted, is the Leningrad Prophet-Codex, written in 916—17. It is a vellum codex containing the Latter Prophets, and is written in double columns.

Some other Hebrew codices, for example, the Codex of the Prophets preserved in the Synagogue in Cairo, the Aleppo Ben-Asher Codex, the Oxford Codex Laudianus, the De’Rossi Codex No. 634, the Cambridge University Library manuscript bearing the date of 856, whether dated or undated, are attributed to the ninth or tenth centuries; but there is much doubt as to some of the datings. The majority of the Hebrew codices are of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, the numbers increasing with the later dates.

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