Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 364*
Origins
Byzantium, 11th–12th c.
Provenance
Sold in AM 5237 (1476/7). Bought in Canea (Crete) in AM 5403 (1642/3) and dedicated in a synagogue in Egripon (Negroponte, Euboea). Bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1933.
Contents
Incomplete Hebrew text of Former Prophets from Joshua 3:10 to 2 Kings 25:15 with masora, Hebrew notes and Greek glosses in the margins.
Codicology
Parchment, 174 fols, 230 x 185 mm. Quaternions. Ruled with a hard point on the recto. Few signs of pricking. Two cols per page. 21–26 lines.
Palaeography
Main text: calligraphic square Hebrew hand, written by 4 or more scribes. Masora: two cursive hands. Marginal annotations: 4 cursive hands, one very similar to one of the hands of the masora.
Bibliography
de Lange, Nicholas, The Greek Glosses of the Fitzwilliam Museum Bible (Ms 364*), Zutot, S. Berger, M. Brocke, I. Zwiep, Dordrecht ; London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 138-147.
Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith, An early Hebrew manuscript from Byzantium, Zutot, S. Berger, M. Brocke, I. Zwiep, Dordrecht ; London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 148–155 .
Sznol, Shifra, The Greek Glosses of Fitzwilliam Museum MS 364*: some notes, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies, 40, Cambridge, 2007, 32-35.
