Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the Kennicott Collection

摘要

[EN] Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), important Hebraist and librarian at the Radcliffe Library, gathered a number of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, kept nowadays in the Bodleian library. It is a collection of nine bibles, being seven of them of Sephardic origin; only two were copied in Ashkenaz and one in Italy. Until the present days, the only complete catalogue of those manuscripts in Neubauer's, dated in 1886, which obviously foes not include codicological aspects. The present work is focused in a detailed study of the bibles in this collection copied in the Iberian Peninsula, excluding the famous Kennicott Bible, which has been already described and studied. The work on each manuscript is two folded: the first part correspond to the description and in the second part textual aspects of the manuscript are presented.