Sephardic Masoretic Hebrew Bible manuscript (Tanakh)

This manuscript is a codex of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) copied with the Masoretic apparatus, a set of marginal annotations and signs that fix the vocalization, cantillation and word count in order to guarantee the accuracy of the transmission of the sacred text. The medieval Iberian Peninsula was a great center of production of scholarly bibles, where Jewish scribes and Masoretes perpetuated the textual tradition. Sephardic bibles are distinguished by their carpet pages with geometric interlacings and their menorot or Temple vessels drawn in micrography, that is, formed from lines of minute text. This type of codex embodies the biblical erudition of Sefarad before and around the expulsion of 1492.