Hebrew palaeography help needed!
I'm trying to better localize and date these two leaves from a large Masoretic bible, and would very much appreciate the opinion of some of the Hebrew paleographers here. They have been tentatively dated to the late 11th or early 12th century. 1/
I'm trying to better localize and date these two leaves from a large Masoretic bible, and would very much appreciate the opinion of some of the Hebrew paleographers here. They have been tentatively dated to the late 11th or early 12th century. 1/
The leaves were recovered from the binding of a 16th century German book. The angular script has been compared with the Aragonese bible codex, once Valmadonna, MS. 2, which is circa 1100 CE, although that hand has a noticeable leftwards slope which is not present here. 2/
Here is the reverse of both leaves (they are in a double sided frame, so the versos are slightly obscured by the mount).
Any help or thoughts from some of the Hebrew manuscripts experts here would be very much appreciated! 3/
Any help or thoughts from some of the Hebrew manuscripts experts here would be very much appreciated! 3/
The leaves each have 3 columns of 30 lines, and measure approx 360 x 270 mm. The text is Jeremiah 40:12-42:1 and 51:59-52. 4/
FWIW, to my eye the script looks about a century later, circa 1200, and most likely western French. 5/
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