Oxford, Bodleian MS. Kennicott 2
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Oxford, Bodleian MS. Kennicott 2
Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Item Nature
Codex
Writing
Parchment
Brown (iron-gall)
Ruling
There is ruling
Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines
35
35
Date
בחדש אדר שנת תתרס"ו ליצירה
1306
14th Century CE
Place
Soria
שוריא
Spain
Sepharad
Language
Hebrew
Subject Field
- Bible
- Bible commentary
Vowels and Signs
Complete
Tiberian
Other
https://sfardata.nli.org.il/#/manuscript/0C284 (Date accessed: 2026-11-06)
990001131010205171
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/51d6d240-106e-4197-9255-082f39b9db48 (Date accessed: 2026-11-06)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. “MS. Kennicott 2.” Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries. https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_4 (accessed November 6, 2026).
Barco, Javier del. “Joshua ibn Gaon’s Hebrew Bibles and the Circulation of Books in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” In Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures, edited by Esperanza Alfonso and Jonathan P. Decter, 267–297. Medieval Church Studies 34. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
Beit-Arié, Malachi. Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Kennicott, Benjamin. Dissertatio generalis in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum: cum variis lectionibus, ex codicibus manuscriptis et impressis. Edited by Paulus Iacobus Bruns. Brunovici: Orphanotrophei, 1783.
Kogman-Appel, Katrin. Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Kogman-Appel, Katrin [קטרין קוג’מן-אפל]. אמנות יהודית בין איסלם לנצרות [Jewish art between Islam and Christianity]. 5761 [2001]: 92–117.
Metzger, Thérèse. “Josué ben Abraham Ibn Gaon et la Masora du manuscrit illuminé.” Codices Manuscripti no. 15/5 (1990): 1–27.
Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles. Vol. 1, The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; London: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Narkiss, Bezalel, and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin. The Kennicott Bible: An Introduction. London: Facsimile Editions, 1985.
Neubauer, Adolf. Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886.
Ortega-Monasterio, María Teresa. “Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the Kennicott Collection.” Babelao no. 5 (2016): 127–168.
Ortega-Monasterio, María Teresa. “Some Hebrew Bibles in the Bodleian Library: The Kennicott Collection.” Journal of Semitic Studies no. 62 (2017): 93–111. https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgw054.
Roth, Cecil. “A Masterpiece of Medieval Spanish-Jewish Art: The Kennicott Bible.” Sefarad no. 12 (1950): 351–368, see 365f. (Roth questions the name of the scribe although he acknowledges that both BnF MS. Hébreu 20 and MS. Kennicott 2 were written by the same hand).
Yedid-Halevy, Estelle. “Les manuscrits enluminés de Josué Ben Abraham Ibn Gaon.” Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses no. 92 (1983–1984): [pages to be checked]. https://doi.org/10.3406/ephe.1983.18403.
Barco, Javier del. “Joshua ibn Gaon’s Hebrew Bibles and the Circulation of Books in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” In Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures, edited by Esperanza Alfonso and Jonathan P. Decter, 267–297. Medieval Church Studies 34. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
Beit-Arié, Malachi. Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Kennicott, Benjamin. Dissertatio generalis in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum: cum variis lectionibus, ex codicibus manuscriptis et impressis. Edited by Paulus Iacobus Bruns. Brunovici: Orphanotrophei, 1783.
Kogman-Appel, Katrin. Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Kogman-Appel, Katrin [קטרין קוג’מן-אפל]. אמנות יהודית בין איסלם לנצרות [Jewish art between Islam and Christianity]. 5761 [2001]: 92–117.
Metzger, Thérèse. “Josué ben Abraham Ibn Gaon et la Masora du manuscrit illuminé.” Codices Manuscripti no. 15/5 (1990): 1–27.
Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles. Vol. 1, The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; London: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Narkiss, Bezalel, and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin. The Kennicott Bible: An Introduction. London: Facsimile Editions, 1985.
Neubauer, Adolf. Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886.
Ortega-Monasterio, María Teresa. “Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the Kennicott Collection.” Babelao no. 5 (2016): 127–168.
Ortega-Monasterio, María Teresa. “Some Hebrew Bibles in the Bodleian Library: The Kennicott Collection.” Journal of Semitic Studies no. 62 (2017): 93–111. https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgw054.
Roth, Cecil. “A Masterpiece of Medieval Spanish-Jewish Art: The Kennicott Bible.” Sefarad no. 12 (1950): 351–368, see 365f. (Roth questions the name of the scribe although he acknowledges that both BnF MS. Hébreu 20 and MS. Kennicott 2 were written by the same hand).
Yedid-Halevy, Estelle. “Les manuscrits enluminés de Josué Ben Abraham Ibn Gaon.” Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses no. 92 (1983–1984): [pages to be checked]. https://doi.org/10.3406/ephe.1983.18403.
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Oxford, Bodleian MS. Kennicott 2: 48r
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Oxford, Bodleian MS. Kennicott 2: Main text scribe; Artist
Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)