The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family
Digitization Project, is pleased to announce the digitization of three
of the Library's most important Bible manuscripts:
1. Pentateuch written in Eretz Israel, 10th century. 270 folios,
vocalized, with accents and Masora. Known as 'Keter Damesek' (the
crown of Damascus)
2. Entire Bible written in Burgos, Spain, 1260. 428 folios,
vocalized, with accents and Masora. Also known as 'Keter Damesek'.
3. Entire Bible written in Saragossa, Spain, 1341. 204+206+53 folios,
vocalized, with accents and David Kimchi's Sefer ha-Shorashim in the margins.
The manuscripts are presented in the DjVu format which provides high
quality, magnifiable images compressed into relatively small files for
easy downloading. In order to view DjVu images it is necessary to
download and install (once) a special free viewer program.
The manuscripts and their descriptions can be accessed at:
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/ (Description in Hebrew)
or
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/index_eng.html (Description in English)
Elhanan
Elhanan Adler
Deputy Director for Information Technology
National Library of Israel
P.O.B. 39105, Jerusalem 91390, Israel
Email: elha...@libnet.ac.il, elhan...@savion.huji.ac.il
Tel.: 972-2-6585005, FAX: 972-2-6511771, Home tel.: 972-2-6515977
Mobile tel.:972-54-6829657
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