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Yad Ben-Zvi MS 1 · Aleppo Codex
Keter Aram Tzova
c. 920 CE · Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem
The Tiberian Masoretic codex Maimonides used as his textual reference, and the basis for modern critical editions. About 60% survives following the 1947 Aleppo riots; the surviving folios are the most authoritative witness to the Ben-Asher tradition.
- Scribe
- Shlomo ben Buya'a (consonants); Aharon ben Asher (vocalization and Masorah)
- Place of origin
- Tiberias
- Provenance
- Tiberias → Jerusalem → Cairo → Aleppo
- Holding institution
- Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem
- Image attribution
- Full scan via Internet Archive (uploaded 2023). For the official high-resolution imagery, see Yad Ben-Zvi at aleppocodex.org.
