Archives for August 2009

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.

The Hebrew manuscripts in New York Public Library can be viewed here.

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