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Taylor-Schechter 16.320

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Taylor-Schechter 16.320 (T-S 16.320; TM 62154; LDAB 3314; vh236; Rahlfs 2006) is a Greek biblical manuscript written on parchment in codex form. This is a palimpsest that contains the Palestinian Talmud and the Septuagint Psalms.[1] The manuscript is dated 550 – 649 CE.[2]

Description

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The upper text of this palimpsest is the Hebrew Palestinian Talmud, Moʿed Qaṭan 82a-b; 83b.[3] The under text is the Septuagint of Psalms 143:1-144:6.[4] Psalmi 143-144 are written in a regular round Biblical majuscule.[5]

The manuscripts is written in one columns per page and contains the Hebrew Tetragram.[6]

The manuscript comes from the Genizah in Egypt and was donated by Solomon Schechter and his patron Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection.[7]

Current location

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Currently, the manuscript is stored at Cambridge University Library, as Taylor-Schechter 16.320.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Catherine Holmes; Judith Waring, eds. (2002-09-27). Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond. The Medieval Mediterranean. : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-500. Vol. 42. BRILL. p. 249. ISBN 9789004120969.
  2. ^ "Trismegistos 62154 = LDAB 3314". Papyri info.
  3. ^ Olszowy-Schlanger, J. (2014). J. Aitken; J. Carleton Paget (eds.). "On the Hebrew script of the Greek–Hebrew palimpsests from the Cairo Genizah". The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 279–299. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511736223.023. ISBN 9780511736223.
  4. ^ a b "Palimpsest; Palestinian Talmud; Greek Bible (T-S 16.320)".
  5. ^ "TM 62154 / LDAB 3314".
  6. ^ Robert A. Kraft. Chronological List of Early Papyri and MSS for LXX/OG Study (plus the same MSS in Canonical Order appended).
  7. ^ De Lange, N. (1992). "Byzantium in the Cairo Genizah". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 16: 34–47. doi:10.1017/S0307013100007539. S2CID 246637847.