Moses Wilhelm Shapira’s Forgotten Scroll of Jeremiah
By Matthew Hamilton
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26 November 2023
https://www.academia.edu/109819157/Moses_Wilhelm_Shapiras_Forgotten_Scroll_of_Jeremiah
1 Independent researcher, Sydney, Australia. Thanks are given to Chris Phillips, English genealogist, for making available his extensive research into Colonel Campbell, the last known owner of the scroll of Jeremiah.
1869:
Durch einen Geschäftsfreund im Orient erhielt ich im vorigen Jahre zwei alterthümliche Thora-Rollen, aus Arabien und Palästina stammend, die sowohl wegen ihres hohen Alters, als auch wegen ihrer eigenthümlichen von den gewöhnlichen Gesetzesrollen abweichenden Beschaffenheit das höchste Interesse beanspruchen und für die bibl. Textkritik nicht ohne Belang sind. Beide Rollen dürften zu dem ältesten Handschriften des Pentateuch zählen, welche wir in Europa besitzen.
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1 Baer, Seligmann, 1870.
התורה על עורות מאדמים Zwei alte Thora-Rollen aus Arabien und Palästina, Frankfurt: Johannes Alt, 3. On page 16 Johannes Alt noted “Ferner habe ich folgende Manuscripte” regarding an additional eight manuscripts for sale, however it is not clear which of these Alt may have sourced from Shapira. Indications these and other manuscripts with Alt were sourced from Shapira may be found in publications such as Baer, Seligmann, and Delitzsch, Franz, 1872.
ספר ישעיה Liber Jesaiae, Lipsiae: Ex Officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, vi, where Delitzsch noted
“Atque adeo contigit potiri duorum Codicum, qui nuper ex oriente advecti sunt. Horum duorum Codicum, quos in adnotationibus criticis saepenumero citavimus, primum Hierosolymitanum nuncupavimus, nam SCHAPIRA Hierosolymitanus, sedulus ille Codicum conquisitor, eum Joanni Altio Francofurtensi vendendum tradidit, qui quidem BAERIUM rogavit, ut exploratum breviter describeret.” A study of the manuscripts Shapira sold via Alt is currently underway.
38 Baer, Seligmann, 1870.
התורה על עורות מאדמים Zwei alte Thora-Rollen aus Arabien und Palästina, Frankfurt: Johannes Alt, 3. On page 16 Johannes Alt noted “Ferner habe ich folgende Manuscripte” regarding an additional eight manuscripts for sale, however it is not clear which of these Alt may have sourced from Shapira. Indications these and other manuscripts with Alt were sourced from Shapira may be found in publications such as Baer, Seligmann, and Delitzsch, Franz, 1872.
ספר ישעיה Liber Jesaiae, Lipsiae: Ex Officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, vi, where Delitzsch noted “Atque adeo contigit potiri duorum Codicum, qui nuper ex oriente advecti sunt. Horum duorum Codicum, quos in adnotationibus criticis saepenumero citavimus, primum Hierosolymitanum nuncupavimus, nam SCHAPIRA Hierosolymitanus, sedulus ille Codicum conquisitor, eum Joanni Altio Francofurtensi vendendum tradidit, qui quidem BAERIUM rogavit, ut exploratum breviter describeret.” A study of the manuscripts Shapira sold via Alt is currently underway.