codex · Hebrew · OT
Leningrad Codex
Also known as: Codex Leningradensis, B19A
1008 – 1009 (~1008) · dated by colophon
Evidence card
A quick read on the physical object before the interpretive summary.
Artifact
codex · Hebrew
Date basis
1008 – 1009 (~1008) · colophon
Survival
~100% physically present
Contents
tanakh All 24 books — complete
Artifact/map cue
Held at Russian National Library, St. Petersburg
Date
1008 – 1009 (~1008)
Passage represented
tanakh All 24 books — complete
How much survives
~100% of the claimed text is physically present
Why it matters
The oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The base text for every modern critical edition (BHS, BHQ) and therefore underlies most Old Testament translations in use today. The colophon dates it precisely to AD 1008.
What it contains
- tanakh — All 24 books — complete
~100% of the claimed text is physically present.
Where & when
- Held at
- Russian National Library, St. Petersburg
Source trail
Named catalogues, editions, libraries, or scholarship used for this manuscript page.
Citation cue
BHS
Citation cue
Russian National Library