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Cairo Genizah : Colophon; Bible; jottings

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: Judges 3:11–15, with a number of cases of dittography. In the left margin, beginning of 1 Samuel 13:12. The name Solomon ha-Levi b. Samuel the judge is written in large letters on the margins. Verso: at the top, the phrases “I, Solomon” and “I, Solomon ha-Levi” are written in small square characters. The rest of the page and the right margin are taken by a colophon, in the same hand as the above phrases, in large square characters, which purports to be that of the famous copyist Samuel b. Jacob, who states that he wrote and vocalised the text and provided it with the Masora. This colophon is unrelated to the biblical passage overleaf, which is unvocalised and does not come with masoretic notes. The colophon is likely to have been copied by the writer of “I, Solomon“ rather than being actually written by the scribe Samuel b. Jacob.</p>

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