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Lewis-Gibson

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Job 29:18-30:12. The fragment is from a high quality, single-column Masoretic codex, carefully produced, with plentiful Masora Parva and Magna. The layout is brick over brick, space over space, though the arrangement only sometimes corresponds with the semantics of the text. Orthographically, the text is close to that of the Aleppo Codex, though with some differences in matres lectionis. The vocalisation is standard Tiberian (though with a very few non-standard features, such as the inconsistent use of ḥaṭef qameṣ to indicate qameṣ ḥaṭuf). Occasionally, an expected dageš lene is omitted. Rafe is used consistently over spirantised begedkefat letters and non-consonantal final he. Where two spirantised begedkefat letters appear adjacent to one another, sometimes two rafe signs are used, and sometimes one centrally placed sign. Qere-Ketiv is indicated by a reversed final נ. The Masora Magna contains both elaborative and collative notes. The Aramaic parts (only) of the Masora Magna are marked with occasional Babylonian vowel signs. The Masora Magna notes are adorned with patterns made up from lines and circules. Ca. 11th-13th century.</p>