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JTS MS L6
1492–1497 CE · The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
A Sephardic Hebrew Bible (390 leaves of parchment) whose text was completed by Abraham Khalif in Toledo in Nissan 5252 (1492) — the year of the Spanish Expulsion — and whose masorah was added by Hayim ibn Hayim in Constantinople in 1497. The codex is incomplete, lacking Genesis 1:1–Deuteronomy 33:26. Subsequently owned by Karaite scholars in 18th-century Cairo before being acquired in Constantinople in 1896 by E. N. Adler.
- Scribe
- Abraham Khalif (text, Toledo, 1492); Hayim ibn Hayim (masorah, Constantinople, 1497)
- Place of origin
- Toledo & Constantinople
- Provenance
- Toledo → Constantinople → Karaite owners (Cairo, 18th c.) → E. N. Adler (1896) → JTS
- Holding institution
- The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
- Image attribution
- Image courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (MS L6). Digitization funded by the Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky Digitization Project.
