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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,"

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."

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.

Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts

From the New York Public Library.

Hebrew Manuscripts

From the Jewish Theological Seminary.   Selections from the library's extensive collections.

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."

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."

Hebrew Manuscripts

From Columbia University.

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.

Hebrew Manuscripts

From the University of Haifa.  "The Hebrew manuscripts collection includes commentary for the bible and biblical translations."

Hebrew Manuscripts

From the Vatican.

Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books

From the Braginsky Collection. 

David Ellenson Rare Book Exhibit

From Hebrew Union College. Examples of manuscripts, books, bookplates, stamps, maps, and broadsides in digital format.

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.

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.

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah Code of Jewish Law

From Oxford University.  "Held by the Bodleian Library and belonging once to Eleazar ben Perahya.."

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.

Prague Bible

From Yeshiva University.  Illuminated manuscript of the Bible (Tanakh) with Rashi's commentary. It was completed in Prague in 1489.

Scrolls of Esther

From the Braginsky Collection.

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. "

Talmudic Manuscripts

From the National Library of Israel.

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."

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.

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."

Yeshiva University Library Manuscripts

From Yeshiva University.  "Many of the manuscripts are from the library of Louis Lewin (1868-1941), a rabbi in Posen and Silesia, and a prolific author who wrote extensively about the Jewish communities in those areas."

Hebrew Manuscripts

From Hebrewbooks.org. full text of many manuscripts in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Hebrew Union College. The manuscripts are browsable by title and available for download in pdf format.

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.”

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.

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.

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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