Our Cairo Genizah fragments were digitised as part of the Friedberg Genizah Project (2010-2012) and can be accessed on their dedicated project page. Over 100 partially digitised Hebrew illuminated manuscripts are searchable on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. This new project, aimed at digitising 860-1,250 Hebrew manuscripts, is an international collaboration with the National Library of Israel (NLI). More information on the digitised manuscripts can be found on the Hebrew Manuscripts website. A second digitisation phase has started in April 2016. These digitised manuscripts have been uploaded and are searchable on the Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site. We have finalised a three-year externally funded project to digitise 1300 Hebrew manuscripts from the collection. Although its title mentions the Samaritan manuscripts, these were not in fact included in the catalogue. For example the 3-volume Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British museum (London, 1899), by George Margoliouth. Some of the printed manuscript catalogues are available online in the Internet Archive. Material relating to Judaic studies is also to be found in Eastern European and Western language collections in the Department of Manuscripts and in the India Office Records.ĭetails of the Hebrew and Yiddish printed holdings are mostly available in the Library’s online catalogue, Explore the British Library.
10th century (Or.4445) the Kaifeng Torah Scroll, China, 17th century (Add.MS.19250): the Lisbon Bible, Portugal, 15th century (Or.2626-2628): the Golden Haggadah, Catalonia, 14th century (Add.MS.27210) and the Duke of Sussex’s German Pentateuch, 14th century, Lake Constance (Add.MS.15282). Highlights of the Hebrew collection include: the London Codex, Egypt, c. Together with that of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester the British Library’s Samaritan collection is not only one of the largest in the United Kingdom but in the whole of Europe. Historically, the Samaritan manuscripts totalling 178 items, with some early specimens dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, have always formed part of the Hebrew collection. In addition there are approximately 7,000 manuscript fragments, mainly from the Cairo Genizah, nearly 1,000 Hebrew and Yiddish periodical and newspaper titles, and considerable numbers of manuscripts, printed books and periodicals in microforms.
Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish and various others). It includes around 3,000 manuscript volumes and about 75,000 book titles – mostly in Hebrew and related languages that use the Hebrew script (e.g. Our collection - one of the most important in the world - encompasses all facets of Hebrew literature and a wide range of religious and secular area studies.
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