{"id":330,"date":"2020-07-12T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2020-07-12T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T02:52:12","slug":"how-to-access-jewish-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"How to Access Jewish Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-base-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Updated: 27 February 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With so many Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts now digitized (though certainly not all), they are accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This means that anyone, not just scholars trained in codicology and paleography, can peek at these treasures and learn from them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a medievalist, though not one who primarily works from manuscripts, I regularly look up manuscripts, whether to assess the state of our printed text, get a sense of the surviving copies, retrieve cataloging information about a manuscript, check for variants in specific passages, or actually copy out a whole section of text that has never been published. I was fortunate to receive my paleographical training from the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/27\/books\/menahem-schmelzer-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Menahem Schmelzer<\/a> and at intensive trainings at UPenn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you&rsquo;re a grad student or a curious lifelong learner, manuscripts have lots of juicy secrets to reveal to you! Here&rsquo;s my quick-start guide to accessing them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-look-up-a-manuscript\">Why look up a manuscript?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>To follow up on an reference <\/strong>in a secondary source. Maybe the article you&rsquo;re reading uses a manuscript and you want to experience what it looks like.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To check a printed text against a manuscript version<\/strong>. Often Jewish books have been published in editions of variable quality, many of which date to the early centuries of mechanical printing. (Or, they have been published in outstanding editions that are inaccessible to the vast majority of people without institutional access to specialized publications.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To make discoveries.<\/strong> Of those manuscripts that survive, there are many, many manuscripts that have never been published, let alone digitized. You might want to find treasures that are sitting around waiting to be read and brought back to life!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To get more information about surviving manuscripts.<\/strong>Even if all you do is look up a manuscript in the library catalog, you can find out really interesting information from the cataloging notes, which once upon a time lived in large, often hand-typed volumes that themselves were stored in rare book rooms. You will sometimes see other numbers next to manuscript numbers, which are generally either catalog entry numbers or microfilm numbers. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-read-manuscript-numbers\">How to read manuscript numbers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading manuscript numbers is easy, once you know the standard abbreviations.<span id=\"easy-footnote-1-330\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\"><\/span><span class=\"easy-footnote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?p=330#easy-footnote-bottom-1-330\" title='There&amp;#8217;s a chart below. Scholars can get away with using annoyingly cryptic shorthand for referring to manuscripts because there aren&amp;#8217;t actually all that many collections of manuscripts in the world. So everyone can know that Bodl. means the &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/\"&gt;the Bodleian Library of Oxford University&lt;\/a&gt;, BNF means &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnf.fr\/fr\"&gt;Biblioth&egrave;que nationale de France&lt;\/a&gt;, and so on. Actually, once you start poking around, it&amp;#8217;s not hard to memorize which collections live in which institution (like, say, the &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.cam.ac.uk\/collections\/departments\/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit\"&gt;Taylor-Shechter collection at Cambridge&lt;\/a&gt;) and even what these collections used to be called if they were called something else in the past (usually the name of some wealthy person who owned them in their personal library). However, the learning curve can be off-putting if you want to follow a reference, which is unfortunate, because it&amp;#8217;s not a complicated system at all.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Take for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">BL Ms. Or. 5024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">which means British Library manuscript Oriental 5024, or literally, at least at some point in history, the 5,024th handwritten book on the shelf in the &ldquo;Oriental&rdquo; collection of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/\">British Library<\/a> in London, UK. This is called a <strong>shelfmark<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the manuscript number, you may have a folio number, like f. 3v (sometimes abbreviated fol., or ff. for multiple folios). This tells you exactly on what page to find a passage. Since we&rsquo;re generally talking about manuscript pages in codices (bound books), we&rsquo;re referring here to both sides of a sheet of paper sewn into the book&rsquo;s binding. Each folio has a <strong>verso<\/strong> (front) side and a <strong>recto<\/strong> (back) side, as do many Jewish books modeled on manuscripts, like the Vilna daf of <a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?encyclopedia=talmud\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Commonly refers to the Talmud Bavli, meaning the Mishnah (redacted Oral Law) with the Gemara (commentary) as redacted in Bavel (Babylon). It is also called by the acronym Shas, referring to the six orders (sedarim, sing. seder) into which the tractates (massekhtot, sing. massekhet) of the Mishnah and Gemara on it are divided. Today, there&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Talmud<\/a>. Daf just means folio (and vice versa) and v is the same as an &ldquo;a&rdquo; (&#1488; or &ldquo;.&rdquo;) page and r a &ldquo;b&rdquo; (&#1489; or &ldquo;:&rdquo;) page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep in mind that many manuscripts bind together a number of different works, so sometimes the folio numbers tell you where in the manuscript to find the entire thing we&rsquo;d call a book today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-look-up-a-manuscript\">How to look up a manuscript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you know where your manuscript actually is (the technical term for its whereabouts is <strong>provenance<\/strong>) you can go to the library page of that institution and look it up, though you don&rsquo;t need to do that anymore, because now we have <a href=\"https:\/\/web.nli.org.il\/sites\/NLIS\/en\/ManuScript\/\">Ktiv<\/a>, on which, see the next section. But theoretically, once you know the shelfmark, you can look up a manuscript directly through the library catalog, similar to the way you&rsquo;d look up any book. You will probably need to specifically find the rare book or manuscript division, then enter the shelfmark according to their system. So, to use the same example from the British Library, you would go to their main page, navigate to one of the catalogs (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/\">this one<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/catalogues\/illuminatedmanuscripts\/searchMSNo.asp\">this one<\/a>) and type in Or 5024 (or select in the drop-down menu), which will get you to the<a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/catalogues\/illuminatedmanuscripts\/record.asp?MSID=19292&amp;CollID=96&amp;NStart=5024&amp;_ga=2.1566007.728441402.1594596381-414463848.1594154807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> manuscript cataloging information and digitized leaves from the manuscript<\/a>. Some digitized manuscripts are free to download and copy and others aren&rsquo;t. The catalog page should say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"where-to-find-manuscripts-online\">Where to find manuscripts online<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the absolute easiest and best way to look up specifically Jewish manuscripts is through the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.nli.org.il\/sites\/NLIS\/en\/ManuScript\/\">Ktiv database<\/a>, which is a project of the <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/web.nli.org.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Library of Israel (NLI)<\/a>. The NLI has a microfilm collection<span id=\"easy-footnote-2-330\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\"><\/span><span class=\"easy-footnote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?p=330#easy-footnote-bottom-2-330\" title=\"Microfilm, if you&amp;#8217;re not familiar with it or its cousin, microfiche, is an old-school way of making mass copies of archival materials. It&amp;#8217;s literally a film rolled up like an old cassette tape but without the case, and you magnify it on a special machine that will make you nauseous faster than a roller coaster.\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> that aims to cover all Jewish manuscripts in all the various libraries around the world. In its 21st century incarnation, this massive collection has become an online, searchable catalog that will give you cataloging data about the manuscripts all in one interface, and a link to the library that owns the item. If the manuscript is digitized, in whole or in part, it will be linked there as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another site to know, for fragments from the Cairo Genizah, is the <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fjms.genizah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society<\/a>. You need to register to use it, but registration is open and free, to the best of my knowledge. If you&rsquo;ve never looked at a manuscript before, try searching for the Passover Haggadah on Friedberg and you&rsquo;ll see many examples that you can read off the page, if you read basic Hebrew. There&rsquo;s also a citizen science project, <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribesofthecairogeniza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scribes of the Cairo Genizah<\/a>, for the public to transcribe genizah fragments, for which you don&rsquo;t need any prior knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-to-do-with-unfamiliar-scripts-handwriting\">What to do with unfamiliar scripts (handwriting)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you know the basic topic and the language of the manuscript, you can make yourself a handwriting key. Pick a chunk of text you recognize and write out the way the scribe forms each letter. It takes some getting used to, but after a little while you get used to reading it, just like learning <a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?encyclopedia=rashi\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Rashi - R. Shlomo Yitzchaki | &#1512;&#1513;&quot;&#1497; - &#1512;' &#1513;&#1500;&#1502;&#1492; &#1497;&#1510;&#1495;&#1511;&#1497; (c. 1040-1105, Troyes, northern France) is among the foremost Talmud and Tanach commentators, ushering in the classical period of line commentaries on foundational texts. He studied in the yeshivot of the Rhineland Valley (Mainz and Worms), the first centers of Jewish life in medieval&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Rashi<\/a> script, if you&rsquo;ve done that.<span id=\"easy-footnote-3-330\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\"><\/span><span class=\"easy-footnote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trmarvin.org\/?p=330#easy-footnote-bottom-3-330\" title=\"Rashi script is simply a printed form of Sefardic semi-cursive handwriting favored by early printers because it&amp;#8217;s compact and takes up less space on the page.\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"major-collections-of-jewish-manuscripts\">Major collections of Jewish manuscripts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not a comprehensive chart, but it covers the collections you&rsquo;ll most commonly encounter in seeking out premodern Jewish manuscripts. (Archives are not included; they&rsquo;re a whole other ballgame.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Abbreviation<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Institution Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Collections<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>NLI<\/td><td><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/web.nli.org.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Library of Israel<\/a><\/td><td>Jerusalem, Israel<\/td><td>[see <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/web.nli.org.il\/sites\/NLIS\/en\/ManuScript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ktiv database<\/a>]<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vat<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/opac.vatlib.it\/mss\/?ling=en\">Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana<\/a> (I actually prefer their old-school interface <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mss.vatlib.it\/guii\/scan\/link1.jsp?fond=Vat.ebr.\">here<\/a>)<\/td><td>Vatican City, Rome, Italy<\/td><td>ebr. = ebraico (Hebrew)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>BNF<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr\/\">Biblioth&egrave;que nationale de France<\/a><\/td><td>Paris, France<\/td><td>h&eacute;b. = h&eacute;breu (Hebrew)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bodl.<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/\">Bodleian Library<\/a><\/td><td>Oxford, UK<\/td><td>Heb. = Hebrew;<br>Poc. = Pococke;<br>Hunt. = Huntington<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CUL or Camb<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.cam.ac.uk\/\">Cambridge University Library<\/a><\/td><td>Cambridge, UK<\/td><td>Add. = Additional;<br>T-S =<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk\/collections\/genizah\/1\">Taylor-Shechter Genizah fragments<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>BL<\/td><td>British Library<\/td><td>London, UK<\/td><td>Or. = Oriental;<br>Add. = Additional<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Parm<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/en\/bpd\/virtuelle_bibliothek\/codvatebr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biblioteca Palatina<\/a><\/td><td>Parma, Italy<\/td><td>ebr. = ebraico = Hebrew<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Munich<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsb-muenchen.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bayerische Staatsbibliothek<\/a><\/td><td>Munich, Germany<\/td><td>Cod. hebr. = Hebrew codices<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ost. or ON<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsb-muenchen.de\/en\/collections\/manuscripts\/languages-regions\/oriental-manuscripts\/\">&Ouml;sterreichische Nationalbibliothek<\/a><\/td><td>Vienna, Austria<\/td><td>Hebr. = Hebrew<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>JTS<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtsa.edu\/library-special-collections\">Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary<\/a><\/td><td>New York, NY, USA<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: 27 February 2023. With so many Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts now digitized (though certainly not all), they are accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This means that anyone, not just scholars trained in codicology and paleography, can peek at these treasures and learn from them. 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