The Jewish National and University Library, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project and the Hebrew University Department of Talmud are pleased to announce the expansion of the Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts. This project brings together images of major Talmudic manuscripts from libraries throughout the world enabling one to view and read the actual manuscripts as they were written. The site now includes the Kaufmann Mishnah (Budapest) and close to twenty manuscripts of almost all the tractates of the Talmud. Among the sources already digitized are manuscripts from the Vatican Library, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the British Library and the Valmadonna Trust in London, the Jewish Theological Library in New York, the Guenzburg Collection in the Russian State Library in Moscow and Yad Harav Herzog in Jerusalem. Other manuscripts from some of these libraries and other collections including Genizah fragments from Cambridge are in various stages of preparation and will be added in the coming months. A link to the site of the digitized Munich manuscript of the entire Talmud is under preparation. In the future important manuscripts of the Talmud Yerushalmi and early midrashim will be added The manuscripts are indexed to enable access by standard citation ( tractate, daf and amud for the Talmud Bavli, and tractate, chapter and mishna for the Mishna).
The site is found at: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/talmud/ Benjamin Richler Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts Jewish National and University Library POB 39105 Jerusalem, Israel 91390 Tel. 02-6586233 FAX 02-6511771 =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
