Seforim Online Blog

The David Kaufmann Collection of Hebrew manuscripts from the Oriental Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Library is online with the images of the manuscripts available for download.

It has 2 manuscripts of particular note. MS A-50 of the Mishna and MS A77 of the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah.

I just added 2 new seforim #179 and #251:

I found this very interesting website about Hebrew manuscripts by the New York Public Library.

I have posted 4 more new seforim in the database – #247-250.

I just posted 2 new seforim into the database: #115 and #116.

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Slowly scanned images of Hebrew manuscripts from various libraries are making their way online. There are a few web sites with such collections and they mainly contain seforim that are most popular, such as the Tanach, Talmud, Rambam, Siddurim, Shulchan Aruch, Tur, etc… I have listed the repositories known to me below.

1) Digitized Manuscripts Collection at the National Library of Israel

2) Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts at UCLA (Link directly to Hebrew manuscripts)

3) Manuscriptorium – National Library of Czech Republic (contains some Hebrew manuscripts, free previews of each page, need to pay for full access of high quality images)

4) Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project (contains fragments of various documents from the Cairo Genizah)

5) Oxford Library Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collections (contains some Hebrew manuscripts under a few different categories)

6) University of Manchester Library – Rylands Genizah (contains fragments of various documents from the Cairo Genizah)

7) The David Simonsen Hebrew Manuscripts Collection at the Royal Danish Library

Our new database is finally operational. It can be searched both in Hebrew and English and includes previews of the title page of each book.