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  • From: Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Leningrad Codex and "Special Letters"
  • Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:24:04 -0500


The Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex at

http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml

has a list of verses having large (Note 5), small (Note 6), and suspended (Note 7) letters in its Supplements:Transcription notes page at

http://www.tanach.us/Supplements/Notes.xml

These results describe a total of 13 transcription notes in the Westminster electronic text and probably do NOT describe all such instances in the Codex itself. The Firefox browser doesn't display suspended letters, Internet Explorer 6+ displays them correctly.

Text decorations vary greatly from text to text. For example, the famous broken vav in Pinchas (Numbers 25:12 in shalom) isn't present in the Leningrad Codex. Looking at photocopies of the (handwritten) Leningrad Codex shows how hard it is to decide what is decoration and what is simply variation.

Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT USA




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