Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B119 : Pentateuch based on the Hillel Codex

The importance of the Braginsky Pentateuch for the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is comparable to that of MS L44a of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, copied in Toledo in 1241. The Braginsky manuscript was copied in Spain, most likely in the second half of the fourteenth century, based on what was considered the original Hillel Codex. No trace of an original Hille…