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Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus

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in the National Library of Russia. "The most celebrated Judaic manuscripts from the National Library of Russia are: ... "The Last Prophets" of 916 ("Codex Babilonicus Petropolitanus") - the first among the known manuscripts with the Babylonian system of vowels in different syllables." Accessed on
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The date of the manuscript (A.D. 916) appears in the colophon. This manuscript is valuable not only due to its age (as one of the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscripts), but also because it is an important witness to the Babylonian pointing system, which was unknown to scholars for centuries until its
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The characters are square, written with a reed using 'thick and shiny' ink. The left side of a column is irregular, as the scribe didn't use elongated letters. The scribe provides the verse divisions using two perpendicular dots.
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discovery. Comparative studies with contemporary manuscripts showed that the codex uses the Eastern signs yet actually "follows the Western tradition in its consonantal text and its pointing." It is first published by
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The codex consists of 225 folios, with each folio divided lengthwise into two columns with 21 lines in each column, except in folio 1a and folio 224a-b, which exhibit epigraphs. Two lines of
273:(Editor). "The Hebrew Bible — Latter Prophets: The Babylonian Codex of Petrograd". Edited with Preface and Critical Annotations. Prolegomenon by P. Wernberg-Møller. 307:. Hermann Leberecht Strack; Rossiĭskaia natsionalnaia biblioteka. Publisher: Petropoli : Editio Bibliothecae Publicae Imperialis, 1876. OCLC Number: 233912085. 298: 320: 257: 301:. Published in 1876 by Hermann Strack in St Petersburg, Russia. The 1876 edition was photographed by Nehemia Gordon in 2017. 86:
appear in the center space between the columns. The vowel-points are superlinear following the so-called Babylonian system.
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in 1876 (in a facsimile edition) and annotated for print editions, among others, in 1971 (hardcover).
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Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus (St. Petersburg, Russian National Library, Evr. I. B 3)
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are placed in the lower margin of each page, whereas the
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Prophetarum posteriorum Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus
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Index

Masoretic
Hebrew Bible
the Latter Prophets
Babylonian vocalization
codex
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
the Minor Prophets
the small and the large Masora
Masorah Magna
Masorah Parva
Abraham Firkowitsch
Chufut-Kale
Crimea
National Library of Russia
Saint Petersburg
H. L. Strack
Aleppo Codex
Codex Cairensis
Leningrad Codex
List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts




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