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Digitized Seforim Manuscripts Online

August 16th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

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

  1. Benjamin Richlerr
    October 11th, 2009 at 07:02 | #1
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    On Sept. 30, 2009, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, made some 160 manuscripts available online. The manuscripts, originally belong to Rabbi David Simonsen (1853-1932) was acquired by the Royal Library in 1932, and the digitization is the result of a private donation.

    To read more about the project, including a user’s guide to the facsimile website (see link on right hand side):http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/js/dsh/index.html

    Access to the digital facsimiles:

    http://www.kb.dk/manus/judsam/2009/sep/dsh/en/

  2. Eli
    October 11th, 2009 at 07:53 | #2
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    Excellent source. Thanks for posting. I have modified my original post to include this link so people can find it easier.

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