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A complete manuscript of the Bible, known as "Leningrad Codex", copied and punctuated and added with Masorah notes by the scribe Shemuel b. Yaaqov, a known scribe of several other extant manuscripts (also known from PGPID 3024, a contract where he commits to produce a biblical manuscript to an egyptian notable). […]
The original person to commision this manuscript, according to the colophon, was Mevorakh b. Yosef b. Netan'el "known as Ben Yazdad", known from other documents from early 11th century Egypt (i.e. […]
And additional note, more than a century later, documents the transfer of the codex from the hands of another qaraite to the Palestinian gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. Shelomo in 1135 CE. An additional short note documents another owner of the codex.
First colophon
- זה המחזור מקרא שלם נכתב ונגמר בנקודות ובמוסרות ומוגה יפה במדינת מצרים
- ונשלם בחודש סיון של שנת ארבעת אלפים ושבע מאות ושבעים שנה לבריאת…
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