The ongoing research project Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae (MBH) is a systematic survey of medieval Hebrew Bible manuscripts in Western Europe with the goal of establishing a typology of Hebrew Bibles produced before 1300. Using a new analytic-descriptive datatbase dedicated to Hebrew Bibles, the MBH project is analyzing around one hundred manuscripts produced before 1300 that focus on the Ashkenazi world of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The MBH project aims to cross-examine different types of data, such as codicological criteria, paleography, scribal and textual tradition, organization, and type of content as well as the history of the manuscript and the possible function of the book-as-object. The project website includes a database that not yet accessible, but aims to be open to the public soon, as well as a listing of biographical references about biblical Hebrew manuscripts.
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The ongoing research project Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae (MBH) is a systematic survey of medieval Hebrew Bible manuscripts in Western Europe with the goal of establishing a typology of Hebrew Bibles produced before 1300. Using a new analytic-descriptive datatbase dedicated to Hebrew Bibles, the MBH project is analyzing around one hundred manuscripts produced before 1300 that focus on the Ashkenazi world of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The MBH project aims to cross-examine different types of data, such as codicological criteria, paleography, scribal and textual tradition, organization, and type of content as well as the history of the manuscript and the possible function of the book-as-object. The project website includes a database that not yet accessible, but aims to be open to the public soon, as well as a listing of biographical references about biblical Hebrew manuscripts.
(Description adapted from information on project website)