Berlin, SBB MS. Or. Fol. 1213

Erfurt 3

Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Quill

There is ruling

Hard point

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

29

30

1100

12th Century CE

The Okhla Lists in MS Berlin or. fol. 1213 / Erfurt 3

Sebastian SeemannBiblical Studies and Exegesis, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Germany
Sefer Okhla we-Okhla is a medieval Masoretic work, which consists of different lists of rare words or of peculiarities of the text of the Hebrew Bible. The author of this work is unknown, but already in the 10th century it is mentioned by Ibn Jannah exactly under this name. The work could have taken his form in the 8th or 9th century. To this date only two recensions of Sefer Okhla we-Okhla exist: MS Paris Hébreu 148 and MS Halle Yb 10. 4Q. This MSS are written in France (Tsarfat) or Germany (Ashkenaz) but do not contain any colophones, however they are dated back to 12th to 14th century. On the other side exist old masoretical bibles their Masorah Magna contains many lists which are part of the independent Work Sefer Okhla we-Okhla. One of those is MS Berlin or.fol.1213 / Erfurt 3, dated approximately 1100. The paper presents the Okhla lists of this MS and compares some examples with MS Paris Hébreu 148 and MS Halle Yb 10. 4Q.
(https://program.eventact.com/Agenda/Lecture/146627?code=2817165)

Sepharad

according to https://juedisches-leben.erfurt.de/jl/de/mittelalter/handschriften/schriften/118747.html
this maniscript is Ashkenazic:
"Die Handschrift stammt aus dem aschkenasischen Raum und ist wahrscheinlich die älteste der Erfurter Sammlung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin."

Hebrew

Bible

Complete

Tiberian

https://juedisches-leben.erfurt.de/jl/de/mittelalter/handschriften/schriften/118747.html

https://program.eventact.com/Agenda/Lecture/146627?code=2817165

J. Penkower “The Ashkenazi Pentateuch Tradition as Reflected in the Erfurt Hebrew Bible Codices and Torah Scrolls”, in Zu Bild und Text im jüdisch-christlichen Kontext im Mittelalter, in F. Bussert – S. Laubenstein – M. Stürzebrecher (eds), Erfurter Schriften zur jüdischen Geschichte 3 )Erfurt: Jena, Bussert & Stadeler, 2014.(, pp. 118 – 141

A. Martini, “Die Geschichte der Erfurter Handschriftensammlung”, in: Die hebräischen Handschriften der Erfurter Sammlung (2018), https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/erfurter_sammlung/index.html

https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/erfurter_sammlung/dokumentation/geschichte_handschriften/index.html (last accessed 9.04.2021)

Benjamin Kennicott, Dissertatio Generalis in Vetvs Testamentvm Hebraicvm cvm Variis Lectionibvs ex Codibvs Manuscriptis et Impressis, 1783, Cod. 602; Johan J. Bellermann, De bibliothecis et museis Erfordensibus, praecipue de Rev[erendi] Ministerii Aug[ustanae] Conf[essionis] Bibliotheca. Pars 1-7, Erfurt 1800–1803, Teil 6, S. 5–7; Johann David Michaelis/Abraham Kall, Dissertationem Philologico-Criticam De Codicibus Mss. Biblico-Hebraicis, Maxime Erffurtensibus, Halle/Magdeburg 1706, § 6, S. 6–7; Adolph Jaraczewsky, Die Geschichte der Juden in Erfurt, Erfurt 1868, S. 116; Paul de Lagarde, „Hebräische Handschriften in Erfurt“, in: Symmicta, Göttingen 1877, Nr. 3, S. 137; Moritz Steinschneider, Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Bd. 2: Verzeichnis der Hebräischen Handschriften, Berlin 1878, Nr. 127, S. 1;