JTS MS L152

  • Torah
  • Targum
  • Codex

A 14th-century Yemenite Tāj (triple-text Pentateuch) — 131 leaves of Genesis 4:11–48:11 with Targum Onkelos in Aramaic and Saadia Gaon's Tafsīr (Arabic translation) alternating verse by verse. Yemenite square script. Acquired by E. N. Adler and brought to JTS in 1922.

Place of origin
Yemen
Provenance
Yemen → E. N. Adler → JTS (1922)
Holding institution
The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
Image attribution
Image courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (MS L152). Part of the Louis and Adele Ginzberg Talmud and Rabbinics Digital Manuscript Collection, supported by the Lawrence-Gould Family.