RNL Evr. I B 19a · Leningrad Codex

B19a

1008 CE · Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg

Tanakh
Torah
Nevi'im
Ketuvim
Codex

The oldest complete Hebrew Bible — basis of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and the standard reference text for modern scholarship. Closely follows the Ben-Asher tradition.

Scribe: Samuel ben Jacob
Place of origin: Cairo (likely)
Provenance: Cairo (likely)
Holding institution: Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg
Image attribution: Color photographs by Bruce E. Zuckerman / West Semitic Research Project, hosted via Internet Archive.