Download Hebrew Manuscripts For Free, Inwards Partnership Amongst Bl Labs

Download Hebrew Manuscripts for free, inwards partnership with BL Labs

We are delighted to denote that 5 to a greater extent than downloadable datasets containing a total of 139 digitised Hebrew Manuscripts select simply been published online here, bringing the total issue of Hebrew datasets to 22, too 723 manuscripts. These manuscripts were digitised every bit purpose of The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts (2013-2016), too nosotros are able to supply them to download too reuse every bit purpose of the British Library Labs projection (BL Labs).

Festival Prayer Book, Italy, 1427-11499. Harley MS 5686, ff. 28r: miniature on the exceed shows a congregation praying inwards a synagogue, too the miniature on the bottom depicts the allegorical ‘Shabbat Bride’ nether a marriage canopy. The manuscript tin live on flora inwards dataset Heb19

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What’s inwards the datasets?The digitised manuscripts are provided every bit 300ppi JPEGs, divided into modest datasets of or too therefore 50GB each, sorted alphabetically past times shelfmark (20 to thirty manuscripts per dataset). They incorporate a huge multifariousness of Hebrew manuscripts, including Kabbalistic works, linguistic works, prayer books, biblical texts too commentaries, spousal human relationship certificates, charters too scrolls. The manuscripts too incorporate texts inwards many dissimilar languages, including Latin, Greek, Yiddish, Persian, Italian, Standard Arabic too Syriac. The catalogue records for all of these manuscripts tin live on flora inwards dataset Heb1 (TEI XML files).

All of the manuscripts are Public Domain, but nosotros would appreciate it if users could read our Ethical terms of exercise guide earlier reusing the Hebrew manuscripts datasets.

Below is an overview of each of the novel datasets, too a total listing of all of the manuscripts included inwards the datasets tin live on seen here. We'd dearest to listen what you've done or made with the manuscript images and/or metadata, too therefore delight e-mail us at digitalresearch@bl.uk.

Heb18. This dataset includes 22 manuscripts ranging from Add MS 27141 to Arundel Or 50. It includes commentaries on the Talmud too Midrash, Kabbalistic works, 2 German linguistic communication prayer books (Add MS 27208 too Add MS 27556) too a collection of medical prescriptions ‘Sefer Refu’ot’ from the 15th century, Deutschland (Add MS 27170). The miscellany Arundel OR l (1400-1799) includes a Hebrew Grammar inwards Latin, with a translation of the Lord's Prayer too the Christian confession of faith.

This dataset too includes ‘The Polyglot Bible’ (Add MS 5242), created inwards England inwards 1665. As good every bit having beautifully detailed illustrations, this manuscript, volition live on of dandy involvement to linguists. It contains excerpts from the Old too New Testament too liturgical pieces translated into many dissimilar languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Spanish, Italian, French too German.

The Polyglot Bible, England, 1665 Add MS 5242, ff. 7v-8r: the commandment of keeping the Sabbath 


The Polyglot Bible, England, 16, Add MS 5242, ff. 14v-15r: Canticum B Virginis

Heb19. This dataset includes twenty manuscripts from Harley MS 1743 to Or 12983. It contains many manuscripts looking at linguistic communication too translation, including several Hebrew-Latin dictionaries too grammars, a 17 – 18th-century re-create of the Psalms with Greek too Latin translations (Harley MS 2427), too Harley MS 7637, an 18th-century gospel of St Matthew inwards Hebrew translation. It too contains the xviii – 19th-century German linguistic communication manuscript ‘Perek Shirah’ (Or 12983), a midrashic commentary with a Yiddish translation.

Perek Shirah, Germany, 1750 – 1899, Or 12983, f. 1r: a depiction of the basis God created at the start of Chapter 1 of ‘Perek Shirah’: “The Heavens are saying: ‘The Heavens verbalise of God’s glory, too the skies tell of His handiwork.’ (Ps. 19:2)” 

The dataset too includes 2 early on copies of parts of the Talmud – ane of the fundamental texts inwards Judaism. Harley MS 5794* (this manuscript has since been renamed inwards the British Library catalogue every bit Harley MS 5794A) contains sections of the Mishnah of Tractates Avot too Zeva’im, too was written inwards Kingdom of Spain inwards the twelfth century. The manuscript Harley MS 5508 contains viii tractates of Seder Mo’ed from the Babylonian Talmud, too it was written inwards Kingdom of Spain inwards the twelfth or 13th-century.

Heb20. This dataset includes 32 manuscripts from Or 2486 to Or 2508. It includes many dissimilar biblical commentaries too Midrashim (biblical exegesis) inwards Persian, Arabic, too Judeo-Arabic. Some of these make from every bit early on every bit the 13th century (such every bit Or 2494 – Or 2497).

The dataset too includes the Torah scroll Or 13027. This thirty metre, 18-19th century scroll was digitised with its silk mantle, which was extensively restored past times the British Library’s cloth conservator Liz Rose. An article discussing her operate tin live on seen here, too the 3D icon of the Torah Mantle tin live on viewed, annotated too downloaded from Sketchfab.

Pentateuch Scroll, Or 13027, unknown, 1750–1899. Silk brocade pall later conservation 

Heb21. This dataset includes 33 manuscripts from Or 2518 to Or 5834. It includes many Standard Arabic too Judeo-Arabic commentaries ranging inwards historic current from the tenth to the 16th centuries, such every bit on the Psalms too other biblical books from the Prophets too the Hagiographa. The earliest of these (Or 2552) is a collection of commentaries on Ecclesiastes too Lamentations, too Japheth ben Ali's Standard Arabic commentary on Job. Japheth ben Ali is considered to live on the foremost Karaite commentator on the bible, too he lived during the ‘Golden Age of Karaism’ inwards the tenth century. He died sometime inwards the minute one-half of the tenth century, too and therefore this manuscript, dated betwixt the tenth too 11th century, could feasibly select been copied during his lifetime, or past times soul who knew him directly.

 Sefer ha-Peli’ah, unknown, 1562. Or 2672, ff. 31r too 67r: 2 folios from ‘Sefer ha-Peli’ah’ (The Book of Wonder), a Kabbalistic biblical commentary

Heb22. This dataset contains 32 manuscripts from Or 6236 to Stowe Ch 297. As good every bit several commentaries, a magic spell, too the Revelation of St John inwards Hebrew translation (Sloane MS 237), this dataset includes vi dissimilar Jewish spousal human relationship certificates (Ketubot) dating from betwixt 1711 too 1835, too a give-and-take on spousal human relationship constabulary from the 15th century (Or 6358).

Stowe Ch 297 is purpose of the British Library’s fascinating collection of English linguistic communication charters dating to earlier the expulsion of the Jews inwards 1290. It is a French quitclaim with a Hebrew docket dating from 1266, inwards which Beatriz of Rattlesden, the prioress too the convent of Flixton is released from whatever obligation on the lands she too her convent acquired from Oliver Buscel.

Or 6360 is a 17-18th-century collection of astrological, kabbalistic too magical fragments. It includes ‘Sefer ha-Levanah’, an astrological mass virtually the stages of the moon’s orbit, too ‘Mafteah Shelomoh’, a Hebrew translation of purpose ane of the 14th or 15th-century grimoire ‘Key of Solomon’, ane of exclusively 2 versions that be inwards Hebrew (part two, inwards Or 14759, is inwards the procedure of beingness digitised every bit purpose of Phase 2 of the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project). The text is attributed to King Solomon, too it would select been written originally inwards Latin or Italian. It includes invocations to summon the dead or demons, too compel them to create the reader’s will. It too includes curses too spells such every bit for finding stolen items, invisibility, too love.

Collection of Astrological, Kabbalistic too Magical Fragments, unknown, 1600–1700. Or 6360, f. 1r:the firstly page of ‘Sefer ha-Levanah’, with an Astrologer