The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts provides free online access to the British Library’s collection of Hebrew manuscripts. Originating as the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project (HMDP), this catalogue comes from a project to digitize the British Library's collection of more than 1,300 Hebrew hand-written books, charters and scrolls totalling 435,000 digitzed pages and make them avaialble in searchable catalogue records.The collection include Bible and biblical commentaries, liturgies, kabbalah, Midrash, Talmud, Halakha, ethics, poetry, philosophy and philology. It covers a vast geographical space from Europe and North Africa in the west, through the Middle East to China in the east. While additional digitization is still ongoing, the project has made its current project data accessible on its website to interested researchers who can download TEI XML records (open license CC-0) or JPEGs of digitised Hebrew manuscripts.
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The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts provides free online access to the British Library’s collection of Hebrew manuscripts. Originating as the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project (HMDP), this catalogue comes from a project to digitize the British Library's collection of more than 1,300 Hebrew hand-written books, charters and scrolls totalling 435,000 digitzed pages and make them avaialble in searchable catalogue records.The collection include Bible and biblical commentaries, liturgies, kabbalah, Midrash, Talmud, Halakha, ethics, poetry, philosophy and philology. It covers a vast geographical space from Europe and North Africa in the west, through the Middle East to China in the east. While additional digitization is still ongoing, the project has made its current project data accessible on its website to interested researchers who can download TEI XML records (open license CC-0) or JPEGs of digitised Hebrew manuscripts.
(Description adapted from information on project website)