Hebrew Manuscripts
Cambridge Digital Library of Hebrew Manuscripts and Cairo Genizah
From Cambridge University. "The Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library is the world's largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts. At the moment, over 18,000 manuscripts from across the Taylor-Schechter, CUL Or. and Jacques Mosseri Collections are available online,"
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Ktiv: International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts
From the National Library of Israel. "The vision of the International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts is to allow readers across the globe to access the complete corpus of existing Hebrew manuscripts."
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Hachi Garsinan Talmud Bavli Variants
From the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society. The site includes images and transcriptions of all textual witnesses of the Babylonian Talmud: Genizah fragments, manuscripts and early printings.
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Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
From the New York Public Library.
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From the Jewish Theological Seminary. Selections from the library's extensive collections.
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From the Ets Haim Synagogue Library. "This website holds images and descriptions of the 560 Jewish manuscripts (47,000 folios) from Ets Haim’s holdings.. Ets Haim in the Netherlands is the oldest still functioning Jewish library in the world. It was founded in 1639 and has been housed in the historical complex of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam since 1675."
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From the British Library. "By the end of the first phase of this project (June 2016), we have finalised the digitisation of 1,300 manuscripts selected for this phase, capturing approximately 435,000 digitised images."
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From Columbia University.
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From the Library of Congress. Over 225 manuscripts; most of them in Hebrew but with a fair sampling of manuscripts also written in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish.
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From the University of Haifa. "The Hebrew manuscripts collection includes commentary for the bible and biblical translations."
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Hebrew Manuscripts
From the Vatican.
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Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books
From the Braginsky Collection.
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David Ellenson Rare Book Exhibit
From Hebrew Union College. Examples of manuscripts, books, bookplates, stamps, maps, and broadsides in digital format.
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Ilanot: Kabbalistic Divinity Maps
From the University of Haifa. A searchable descriptive catalogue of kabbalistic diagrams, generically known as "Ilanot" (Arborae), in manuscripts and books from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
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Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
From the Israel Antiquities Authority. A free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments – discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert.
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Maimonides' Mishneh Torah Code of Jewish Law
From Oxford University. "Held by the Bodleian Library and belonging once to Eleazar ben Perahya.."
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Nachum Collection
From the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society. Contains manuscripts from the Yemenite Genizah collected by Yehuda Levi Nahum, who established the "Unveiling the Treasures" project.
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Prague Bible
From Yeshiva University. Illuminated manuscript of the Bible (Tanakh) with Rashi's commentary. It was completed in Prague in 1489.
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Scrolls of Esther
From the Braginsky Collection.
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Talmud Yerushalmi Manuscript
From Leiden University. "This codex of the Jerusalem Talmud in two volumes, Leiden Or. 4720, is the only surviving manuscript that was used by Bomberg for his edition, and indeed the only complete manuscript of the text to have come down to us at all. Written on parchment and dated in the year 5049 of the Jewish calendar (1289 CE), it was made by the copyist and scholar Jechiel ben Jekutiel ha-Rofe, most probably in Rome. "
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Talmudic Manuscripts
From the National Library of Israel.
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The Auras Memorbuch
From Yeshiva University. "The Auras Memorbuch is an example of the art of manuscript decoration that experienced a renaissance in Central Europe in the 18th century."
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The David Kaufmann Collection of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
From The Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Manuscripts of the Mishna, Mishneh Torah, an Italian siddur, a German machzor and a Haggadah from Catalonia. |
The Friedberg Genizah Project
From the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society. Brings together digitized versions of materials from the Cairo Genizah that are scattered throughout libraries worldwide. The site preserves images of all the Genizah fragments accompanied by extensive information.
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Yad HaRambam
From the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society. "The site will include a synoptic edition of Maimonides' great book Mishneh Torah according to early printings and manuscripts, together with hundreds of commentaries and novellae written on this work."
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The David Simonsen Manuscripts
From the Royal Library of Copenhagen. "193 volumes of different types have been digitized. The majority of the manuscripts contain Halakhic texts and material related to the Talmud.”
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Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
From the Israel Museum. Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll. You can get an English translation of the scrolls as well.
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The Esslingen Machzor
From University of Amsterdam and the Jewish Theological Seminary. The reunion of the two parts of the machzor written in 1290 by Kalonymos ben Judah of Esslingenone. One part was in Holland and the other in the United States.
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The Aleppo Codex
From the Ben Zvi Institute. The Aleppo Codex is a full manuscript of the entire Bible, which was written in about 930.. You can select the specific passages you want to view.
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Sassoon Codex of the Bible
The Institute for Hebrew Bible Manuscripts Research. Digitized collection of a 1053 manuscript of the Bible.
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Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
The Vatican Library. Digitized collection of Hebrew language materials and manuscripts in the Vatican Library.
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