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RNL Evr. I B 3 · Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus

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916 CE · Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg

• Nevi'im
• Latter Prophets
• Codex

Also known as the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets. 225 folios containing the Latter Prophets — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve — dated to 916 CE in the colophon. Distinctive for combining a Western (Tiberian) consonantal text with Babylonian supralinear vocalization, making it the principal scholarly witness to the Babylonian pointing system. The images shown here are reproduced from the facsimile edition prepared by Hermann L. Strack (St. Petersburg, 1876).

Place of origin

Babylonia (Iraq)

Provenance

Babylonia → Crimean Karaite community → Saint Petersburg

Holding institution

Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg

Image attribution

Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg (Evr. I B 3). Images from Hermann L. Strack's facsimile edition (Prophetarum Posteriorum Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, 1876), photographed by Nehemia Gordon (2017) and hosted via the Internet Archive.