JTS MS L58

15th c. · The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary

Torah
Pentateuch
Ketuvim
Fragment

A 15th-century Yemenite manuscript (18 leaves of parchment) containing fragments of the Pentateuch and the book of Psalms with Masorah and a grammatical introduction. The biblical text is in Yemenite square script; the Masorah and grammatical treatises are in Yemenite semi-cursive. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

Place of origin: Yemen
Provenance: Yemen → Enelow Memorial Collection → JTS
Holding institution: The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
Image attribution: Image courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (MS L58). Cataloguing and digitization funded by an anonymous challenge grant, 2014–2015.