I just saw that Idan Dershowitz has made his Kennicott key available on his website. This is a great resource for looking up information and images of the manuscripts collated by Kennicott in the 18th century.
Showing posts with label Hebrew manuscripts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hebrew manuscripts. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2026
Friday, July 17, 2026
Etnachta and Masoretica
Idan Dershowitz has published two different online resources for the study of the Bible:
- Etnachta (https://www.etnachta.org/) - A site that facilitates study and searching of the Masoretic accents. I haven't poked around much with this one yet.
- Masoretica (https://www.masoretica.org/) - This site allows you to look up a verse in a number of manuscripts (Hebrew--Masoretic and Samaritan--and Greek). It's a great tool for easily looking up images of manuscripts for a particular verse.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Friedberg Genizah Fragments in the Ktiv Database
In a recent update that was sent out by the Friedberg Genizah Project, they announced that most of the images and metadata from the site have now been migrated to the Ktiv database, and they are continuing to work on developing new tools and transferring the remaining data.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae
I just saw the Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae project has a nice website up. From the website, "MBH is an ACHN ANR project which supports the systematic study of Hebrew biblical manuscripts produced in Western Europe before 1300, with a view to establishing their typology on the basis of their form and content."
MBH is an ACHN ANR project which supports the systematic study of Hebrew biblical manuscripts produced in Western Europe before 1300, with a view to establishing their typology on the basis of their form and content."
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Codex Sassoon
Sotheby's has announced the forthcoming auction of the famous Sassoon codex of the entire Hebrew Bible from the late 9th or early 10th century. It is truly a wonderful piece of history, and they expect it to sell for 30-50 million dollars. For more context, see the recent WSJ article.
UPDATE 26 Feb 2023: See now the helpful article by Kim Phillips.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Kim Phillips on the Masoretic Tradition
Kim Phillips has a simple and well-illustrated introduction to the Masoretic Hebrew tradition on the TCI page.
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
A New First Temple Hebrew Papyrus
The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the exciting recovery of a fragment of a Hebrew papyrus letter from the 7th-6th centuries BCE, that was presumably found in the Judea Desert. The backstory is quite intriguing and worth a read. The papyrus was supposedly also radiocarbon dated to around the same period, which lends strong support to its authenticity (there's not much blank papyrus from that period floating around in Israel). This is one of only a very small number of Hebrew papyri with a claim to come from that early, and those who helped bring it to light are to be congratulated.
HT Gary Rendsburg
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Radiocarbon Dating of P.Köln Inv. 5941
In a recent COMSt article Date, Materiality and Historical Significance of P.Köln Inv. 5941, the authors report a new analysis of an old Hebrew liturgical manuscript reportedly from Oxyrhynchus. The ink is apparently a mixed iron-gall ink, making it an important early example of this ink type. A sample was radiocarbon dated to the late 3rd or 4th century CE, which accords well with Edna Engel's paleographic dating. Before reading the article, I looked briefly at the fragment paleographically, and I supposed a date from the 3rd-5th centuries. So here we have a good example where material and paleographic evidence support dating another important document to the dark ages of Hebrew manuscripts. See also my article on EGLev.
Friday, August 3, 2018
The Hazards of Paleographic Dating
I have an article in press with Textus on the dating of the charred En-Gedi Leviticus scroll (EGLev), which I suggest should probably be dated to the 3rd-4th centuries CE. One comparandum I intentionally did not include was Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Heb. d.89 (P) i, a small Hebrew Exodus fragment from Oxyrhynchus, because uncertainties about its date made it an unreliable anchor for the typology. Yardeni dated it to the 2nd-3rd centuries, but in the Textus article I suggest it could also be dated later (maybe as late as the 4th-5th centuries) based on comparison with EGLev and the archeological context (most Greek papyri found alongside the Oxford fragment were from the 3rd-5th centuries). I recently reread Engel's paleographic analysis of the London-Ashkar Exodus manuscript (7th-8th centuries) and realized that I failed to note in my article that Engel dates the Oxford fragment to the 7th-8th centuries on the basis of similarities with London-Ashkar! Thus, this rare Exodus fragment is dated variously from the 2nd-8th centuries by the foremost specialists in the field. If that doesn't make you skeptical of overly-precise paleographic dating, I don't know what will. :) In the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, I have even seen proposed paleographic date ranges narrower than 20 years...
Photo credits: EGLev courtesy of Brent Seales; Oxf d.89 (P) i from Engel and Mishor, "An Ancient Scroll of the Book of Exodus"; London-Ashkar courtesy of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, Brooklyn, New York.
Photo credits: EGLev courtesy of Brent Seales; Oxf d.89 (P) i from Engel and Mishor, "An Ancient Scroll of the Book of Exodus"; London-Ashkar courtesy of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, Brooklyn, New York.
Friday, March 16, 2018
Eibert Tigchelaar on Skilled Scribes
Eibert Tigchelaar's lecture Beautiful Bookhands and Careless Characters has been posted online by the University of Birmingham. He proposes classifying scribal hands according to skillfulness, beauty, and regularity. He also suggests that there may be a correlation between skillfulness and function.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts from the National Library of Israel
Haaretz has a brief article highlighting the Hebrew manuscript digitization project of the National Library of Israel that gives some background to the project. This project is opening access to a vast trove of Hebrew manuscripts to a broad audience, and it will be very exciting to see its further progress. On my Online Digital Manuscripts and Editions page I have already highlighted the large number of Bible manuscripts available on the Ktiv site.
Monday, March 13, 2017
A Digital Palaeographic Approach towards Writer Identification in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The University of Groningen and KU Leuven ERC project "The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls" has produced its first publication, A Digital Palaeographic Approach towards Writer Identification in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Congratulations to Maruf, Sheng, Mladen, Eibert, and Lambert for a job well done, as well as to Ruwan van der Iest for all of his behind-the-scenes work on this pilot project. This article was an attempt to use digital images of the Dead Sea Scrolls to determine how accurately existing digital tools are able to distinguish the scripts of samples from a limited number of scribes from different parts of documents and across different documents considered by paleographers to have been written by the same scribe. The computer ranks all samples in relation to a query sample and produces a ranked hitlist of samples that most closely match the query sample. Overall competence in automated handwriting recognition peaked at 80% correct identification of the scribe in the first position in the hitlist. The ability of the computer to correctly place samples of the scribe within the top 10 of the hitlist peaked at about 95%. These results will provide an important benchmark as we now seek to increase our precision by using the higher-quality IAA images and tailoring the measured features better to our documents. The field of paleography of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now well on its way to becoming truly digital, and it will be exiting to see the results over the next couple of years.
Abstract
To understand the historical context of an ancient manuscript, scholars rely on the prior knowledge of writer and date of that document. In this paper, we study the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient manuscripts with immense historical, religious, and linguistic significance, which was discovered in the mid-20th century near the Dead Sea. Most of the manuscripts of this collection have become digitally available only recently and techniques from the pattern recognition field can be applied to revise existing hypotheses on the writers and dates of these scrolls. This paper presents our ongoing work which aims to introduce digital palaeography to the field and generate fresh empirical data by means of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Challenges in analyzing the Dead Sea Scrolls are highlighted by a pilot experiment identifying the writers using several dedicated features. Finally, we discuss whether to use specifically-designed shape features for writer identifica tion or to use the Deep Learning methods on a relatively limited ancient manuscript collection which is degraded over the course of time and is not labeled, as in the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Abstract
To understand the historical context of an ancient manuscript, scholars rely on the prior knowledge of writer and date of that document. In this paper, we study the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient manuscripts with immense historical, religious, and linguistic significance, which was discovered in the mid-20th century near the Dead Sea. Most of the manuscripts of this collection have become digitally available only recently and techniques from the pattern recognition field can be applied to revise existing hypotheses on the writers and dates of these scrolls. This paper presents our ongoing work which aims to introduce digital palaeography to the field and generate fresh empirical data by means of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Challenges in analyzing the Dead Sea Scrolls are highlighted by a pilot experiment identifying the writers using several dedicated features. Finally, we discuss whether to use specifically-designed shape features for writer identifica tion or to use the Deep Learning methods on a relatively limited ancient manuscript collection which is degraded over the course of time and is not labeled, as in the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Michael Langlois on the Jerusalem Papyrus
Michael Langlois weighs in on the Jerusalem papyrus in "How a 2,700-year-old piece of papyrus super-charged the debate over UNESCO and Jerusalem".
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
TC Reviews from RBL
The most recent RBL has three reviews relevant to OTTC:
Guide to Hebrew Manuscript CollectionsRichler, Benjamin
Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2014 pp. x + 409.2nd Edition. $60.00
La Biblia griega Septuaginta 3: Libros poéticos y sapiencialesMarcos, Natalio Fernandez, Jose Manuel Canas Reillo, Mercedes Lopez Salva, Inmaculada Delgado Jara, Antonio Pinero Saenz, Lorena Miralles Macia and M. Victoria Spottorno Diaz-Caro, translatorsSalamanaca: Ediciones Sigueme, 2013 pp. 670. $55.77
Reconsidering Nehemiah's Judah: The Case of MT and LXX Nehemia 11–12
Fulton, Deirdre N.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015 pp. xv + 258. €79.00
Guide to Hebrew Manuscript CollectionsRichler, Benjamin
Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2014 pp. x + 409.2nd Edition. $60.00
La Biblia griega Septuaginta 3: Libros poéticos y sapiencialesMarcos, Natalio Fernandez, Jose Manuel Canas Reillo, Mercedes Lopez Salva, Inmaculada Delgado Jara, Antonio Pinero Saenz, Lorena Miralles Macia and M. Victoria Spottorno Diaz-Caro, translatorsSalamanaca: Ediciones Sigueme, 2013 pp. 670. $55.77
Reconsidering Nehemiah's Judah: The Case of MT and LXX Nehemia 11–12
Fulton, Deirdre N.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015 pp. xv + 258. €79.00
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Christopher Rollston on the Jerusalem Papyrus
Christopher Rollston gets more specific on his concerns about the morphology of the text of the Jerusalem Papyrus in a recent blog post "The Jerusalem Papyrus: Complementary Notations".
HT Rick Bonnie
HT Rick Bonnie
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
More on the New Hebrew Paprus from the Judean Desert
More news sources on the new Hebrew papyrus seized by the IAA. Eitan Klein is quoted in Live Science as saying that the papyrus is dated to the 7th century BCE, rather than the 8th. Christopher Rollston suspects it may be a modern forgery on ancient papyrus based on 1) "some palaeographic and orthographic anomalies and inconsistencies in this papyrus inscription"; 2) its "sensational" content (I assume he means the fact that it mentions a woman and/or Jerusalem?); and 3) its lack of a solid provenance (he casts some doubt on the IAA backstory, though I am not sure the accounts are contradictory). Jim Davila is optimistic about the authenticity of the papyrus, though noting Rollston's concerns.
HT Eibert Tichelaar
Update 27 Oct 2016
In the official IAA press release, Klein suggests it is from the second half of the 7th century.
HT Eibert Tichelaar
Update 27 Oct 2016
In the official IAA press release, Klein suggests it is from the second half of the 7th century.
Monday, June 13, 2016
Bibliographies on Semitic Languages, Bible and Related Subjects by Viktor Golinets
I recently had the opportunity to meet Viktor Golinets, and I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight a helpful set of classified bibliographies he has produced that are very helpful and pertinent for the study of the text of the Hebrew Bible. See his Bibliographies on Semitic Languages, Bible and Related Subjects by Viktor Golinets, which I have also added to the OTTC links section at the bottom of the blog.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Online Biblical Manuscripts and Editions
NB (update 27 April 2016): For the most updated form of this list, see:
http://www.oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.fi/p/online-digital-images.html
The following is a collection most of the Hebrew biblical manuscripts I have found that are available online in digitized form. Following that are a number of Bible editions available online. I have also included some sites with information on how to obtain microfilms of manuscripts as well as a number of sites worthy of further consideration for occasional publication of biblical manuscripts. This catalogue should be viewed as a work in progress, and I will likely continue to update it when I find new manuscripts and editions. I have not been able to exhaust even the websites that I have found to date, but hopefully this list will be of service for those who want to do original research on primary sources online. Please post any additional sources you may be aware of in the comments, and I will probably incorporate them into the main catalogue.
Last updated 7 November 2013.
Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts
Aleppo Codex: The oldest complete manuscript of the entire Hebrew Bible, now with most of the Pentateuch and some other passages missing.
Berlin Codex:
Cairo Codex:
Eretz Israel Pentateuch (10th century):
Lisbon Bible (1482):
Spanish Bible or "Damascus Keter" (1260)::
Spanish Bible (1341):
Xanten Bible (1294):
Samaritan Pentateuch Cambridge Add.1846
Dead Sea Scrolls
Cairo Geniza Fragments:
Nash Papyrus
The British Library is digitizing their collection of Hebrew manuscripts
The University of Madrid has a digitized Book of Joshua.
Greek Manuscripts
Codex M
Chester Beatty LXX papyri (Rahlfs 961-968, 2149, 2150)
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
Editions
Rabbinic Bible:
Biblia Hebraica:
Ginsburg Hebrew Bible:
Early Critical Editions
Mechon Mamre:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Septuagint
Audio:
Microfilmed Manuscripts
(this section has not been organized, but hopefully contains some helpful links and citations)
Department of Manuscripts & The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the Jewish National and University Library: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/index.html#reproduction
Sassoon manuscripts collection - full text of 1,281 manuscripts. Or.Mic. 2738-2893
List of manuscript collections to further consider: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/jewish/libraries.html#manuscripts
Other Potential Sources of Information
(some of these sources have additional manuscripts or other significant information, but I have not had time to exhaust and organize them all)
http://www.archive.org/
Consider St. Petersburg/Moscow/Firkowitch collection as well
Sharon Horowitz of the Library of Congress noted the following:
"Other digitized Hebrew Bibles include the Lisbon Bible (1700), Aleppo Codex, Prague Bible, Leningrad Codex, Spanish Bible 1260, Spanish Bible (1341), Xanten Bible.
The University of Madrid has a digitized Book of Joshua.
"You might also research Hebrew Bible fragments in the Cairo Geniza, much of which is being digitized in Cambridge, England.
(See the article:"Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cairo Geniza"
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2005. (50:2))"http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/lisbon/accessible/introduction.html
Madrid University Library: http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search~S1*spi?/tBiblia.+A.T.+Hebreo/tbiblia+a+t+hebreo/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=tbiblia+a+t+hebreo&1%2C27%2C
Seforim Online reports:
"I have contacted the library and they informed that they have high-resolution images of all of their manuscripts and they will mail them on CD to anyone who requests them for a particular manuscript, as far as I understood, for free. However they are not putting them on the web. The contacts for this at the library are:
Pilar Moreno:
Email: pmoreno@buc.ucm.es
Tel. 34 91 394 6642
Fax. 34 91 394 6599
and
Marta Torres – Library Director:
Email: mtorres@buc.ucm.es"
French National Library in Paris: http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&lang=EN&q=hebreu&p=1&f_typedoc=manuscrit
Laurent HERICHER, Conservateur, Chef du service des manuscrits orientaux, said,"The BNF is in the process of digitizing its collections of manuscripts. As for Hebrew manuscripts, 65 have been digitized from microfilms. It is the very begining. The whole collection will be digitized mainly from the microfilms. Some manuscript will be digitized from the original. As for now, only 4 or five have been digitized from the original and can be consulted online. Precious,rare and important manuscript will be digitized from the original. That should not exceed thirty to fourty items.
"You can consult these manuscripts on Gallica BNF's Virtual library : http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Select "manuscrits" in the research options and type the shelf mark : Hébreu 1333 (here is the permanent link to the document : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60005435)
Manuscripts bearing the shelf mark Hebreu 1 to 65 plus Hébreu 1333, Hébreu 1388, Hébreu 113, Hébreu 1137, can be consulted so far on Gallica"
Search of blog posts on online manuscripts: http://www.seforimonline.org/blog/?category_name=hebrew-manuscripts
Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=kurzauswahl&l=de&adr=daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/ausgaben/gesamt_ausgabe.html?projekt=1157527575&ordnung=sig&recherche=ja
PDFs of Hebrew MSS, most not biblical: http://www.hebrewmanuscripts.org/
List of MSS databases: http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/hebrew-fragments-databases.htm
Austrian Library: http://www.hebraica.at/_scripts/php/hbf_lists.php
Historical Archive of Girona: http://manuscritshebreus.cultura.gencat.cat/index.php?ln=en
Catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: http://nli.org.il/imhm/vaticanhebmss.pdf
http://www.oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.fi/p/online-digital-images.html
The following is a collection most of the Hebrew biblical manuscripts I have found that are available online in digitized form. Following that are a number of Bible editions available online. I have also included some sites with information on how to obtain microfilms of manuscripts as well as a number of sites worthy of further consideration for occasional publication of biblical manuscripts. This catalogue should be viewed as a work in progress, and I will likely continue to update it when I find new manuscripts and editions. I have not been able to exhaust even the websites that I have found to date, but hopefully this list will be of service for those who want to do original research on primary sources online. Please post any additional sources you may be aware of in the comments, and I will probably incorporate them into the main catalogue.
Last updated 7 November 2013.
Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts
Aleppo Codex: The oldest complete manuscript of the entire Hebrew Bible, now with most of the Pentateuch and some other passages missing.
- http://www.aleppocodex.org/newsite/index.html
- Seforim Online (high resolution)
- Seforim Online (low resolution)
Berlin Codex:
Cairo Codex:
Eretz Israel Pentateuch (10th century):
Lisbon Bible (1482):
- http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/lisbonbib.html
- http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/lisbon/accessible/introduction.html
Spanish Bible or "Damascus Keter" (1260)::
Spanish Bible (1341):
Xanten Bible (1294):
- Select illuminated pages: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=xanten&c=172&sScope=Collection+Guide&sLabel=Illuminated%2520Hebrew%2520Manuscripts
Samaritan Pentateuch Cambridge Add.1846
Dead Sea Scrolls
Cairo Geniza Fragments:
- These are being digitized in Cambridge, England.
- Genizah Research Unit
- Genizah Search
Nash Papyrus
The British Library is digitizing their collection of Hebrew manuscripts
The University of Madrid has a digitized Book of Joshua.
Greek Manuscripts
Codex M
Chester Beatty LXX papyri (Rahlfs 961-968, 2149, 2150)
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
Editions
Rabbinic Bible:
- First Rabbinic Bible (1518) (will require download of a document viewer)
- Second Rabbinic Bible (will require download of a document viewer)
- http://www.archive.org/ also has a low quality version.
- Walton's Polyglot (search for Walton on the page; multi-volume).
Biblia Hebraica:
Ginsburg Hebrew Bible:
Early Critical Editions
Mechon Mamre:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Septuagint
Audio:
Microfilmed Manuscripts
(this section has not been organized, but hopefully contains some helpful links and citations)
Department of Manuscripts & The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the Jewish National and University Library: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/index.html#reproduction
MIcrofiche Manuscript Collections:
Collective catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts - bibliographic records of all Hebrew MSS held in public and private collections around the world. Asian & African Studies Reading Room OIC 011.31
Collective catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts - bibliographic records of all Hebrew MSS held in public and private collections around the world. Asian & African Studies Reading Room OIC 011.31
The Dead Sea Scrolls on microfiche. Leiden, 1993. ORB 40/260
The Allegro Qumran Collection - supplement to the above. OR Fiche 458
The Guenzburg manuscript collections - full text of 1,913 MSS from the Russian State Library, Moscow. OR.Mic.14119
The Allegro Qumran Collection - supplement to the above. OR Fiche 458
The Guenzburg manuscript collections - full text of 1,913 MSS from the Russian State Library, Moscow. OR.Mic.14119
- Described in the List of the Guenzburg Manuscript Collection. Printout of the ALEPH catalogue records supplied by the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, JNUL. Jerusalem, 2000. 4 vols.
JTS manuscript collections - full text of manuscripts and rare books held at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York - Or.Mic.11693 (Adler collection); Or.Mic.13922 (Mishneh Torah); Or.Mic.11692 (Rare books); Or.Mic.11669 (Incunabula); Or. 13923 (Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic MSS), etc.
- Described in JTS Hebrew manuscripts - brief descriptions of fourteen microfilm collections arranged in two volumes.
- Described in Sassoon, D. S. & Ohel David. Descriptive catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the Sassoon Library. Oxford, 1932, 2 vols.
List of manuscript collections to further consider: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/jewish/libraries.html#manuscripts
Other Potential Sources of Information
(some of these sources have additional manuscripts or other significant information, but I have not had time to exhaust and organize them all)
http://www.archive.org/
Consider St. Petersburg/Moscow/Firkowitch collection as well
Sharon Horowitz of the Library of Congress noted the following:
"Other digitized Hebrew Bibles include the Lisbon Bible (1700), Aleppo Codex, Prague Bible, Leningrad Codex, Spanish Bible 1260, Spanish Bible (1341), Xanten Bible.
The University of Madrid has a digitized Book of Joshua.
"You might also research Hebrew Bible fragments in the Cairo Geniza, much of which is being digitized in Cambridge, England.
(See the article:"Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cairo Geniza"
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2005. (50:2))"http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/lisbon/accessible/introduction.html
(Lisbon Bible)
(Prague Bible)
(Center for Online Judaic Studies; helpful links)
(links to Lenningrad Codex, aleppo codex)
(catalog of digitized manuscripts)
(a listing, mosly non-Bible)
(a catalog, not the actual digitized manuscripts)
(good info on Manuscripts and manuscript catalogs)
Madrid University Library: http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search~S1*spi?/tBiblia.+A.T.+Hebreo/tbiblia+a+t+hebreo/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=tbiblia+a+t+hebreo&1%2C27%2C
Seforim Online reports:
"I have contacted the library and they informed that they have high-resolution images of all of their manuscripts and they will mail them on CD to anyone who requests them for a particular manuscript, as far as I understood, for free. However they are not putting them on the web. The contacts for this at the library are:
Pilar Moreno:
Email: pmoreno@buc.ucm.es
Tel. 34 91 394 6642
Fax. 34 91 394 6599
and
Marta Torres – Library Director:
Email: mtorres@buc.ucm.es"
French National Library in Paris: http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&lang=EN&q=hebreu&p=1&f_typedoc=manuscrit
Laurent HERICHER, Conservateur, Chef du service des manuscrits orientaux, said,"The BNF is in the process of digitizing its collections of manuscripts. As for Hebrew manuscripts, 65 have been digitized from microfilms. It is the very begining. The whole collection will be digitized mainly from the microfilms. Some manuscript will be digitized from the original. As for now, only 4 or five have been digitized from the original and can be consulted online. Precious,rare and important manuscript will be digitized from the original. That should not exceed thirty to fourty items.
"You can consult these manuscripts on Gallica BNF's Virtual library : http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Select "manuscrits" in the research options and type the shelf mark : Hébreu 1333 (here is the permanent link to the document : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60005435)
Manuscripts bearing the shelf mark Hebreu 1 to 65 plus Hébreu 1333, Hébreu 1388, Hébreu 113, Hébreu 1137, can be consulted so far on Gallica"
Search of blog posts on online manuscripts: http://www.seforimonline.org/blog/?category_name=hebrew-manuscripts
Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=kurzauswahl&l=de&adr=daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/ausgaben/gesamt_ausgabe.html?projekt=1157527575&ordnung=sig&recherche=ja
PDFs of Hebrew MSS, most not biblical: http://www.hebrewmanuscripts.org/
List of MSS databases: http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/hebrew-fragments-databases.htm
Austrian Library: http://www.hebraica.at/_scripts/php/hbf_lists.php
Historical Archive of Girona: http://manuscritshebreus.cultura.gencat.cat/index.php?ln=en
Catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: http://nli.org.il/imhm/vaticanhebmss.pdf
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