Taylor-Schechter 16.320 Explained
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
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. Psalmi 143-144 are written in a regular round Biblical majuscule.[4]
The manuscripts is written in one columns per page and contains the Hebrew Tetragram.[5]
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.[6]
Current location
Currently, the manuscript is stored at Cambridge University Library, as Taylor-Schechter 16.320.[7]
Notes and References
- Book: Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond. 42. The Medieval Mediterranean. : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-500. Catherine Holmes. Judith Waring. BRILL. 2002-09-27. 9789004120969. 249.
- Web site: Trismegistos 62154 = LDAB 3314. Papyri info.
- Olszowy-Schlanger, J.. 2014. On the Hebrew script of the Greek–Hebrew palimpsests from the Cairo Genizah. J. Aitken. J. Carleton Paget. The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. 279–299. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/CBO9780511736223.023. 9780511736223.
- Web site: TM 62154 / LDAB 3314.
- Book: Chronological List of Early Papyri and MSS for LXX/OG Study (plus the same MSS in Canonical Order appended). Robert A. Kraft.
- De Lange, N.. 1992. Byzantium in the Cairo Genizah. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 16. 34–47. 10.1017/S0307013100007539. 246637847.
- Web site: Palimpsest; Palestinian Talmud; Greek Bible (T-S 16.320).