Apéndices Masoréticos: Códice M1 de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (review)

Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 393 Reviews Peshitta. It is not a work designed for the newbie to this line of research, although the articles by Dyk are perhaps the most accessible in this respect. Robert Phenix Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63109 phenixjr@slu.edu APÉNDICES MASORÉTICOS: CÓDICE M1 DE LA UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID. By Elvira Martín Contreras. Pp. xix + 185. Madrid: Instituto de Filología, 2004. Paper,
21,00. $25.50. Martín Contreras’s edition of three of the masoretic appendices of manuscript M1 of the Universisdad Complutense de Madrid is part of a larger project undertaken by the Hebrew Bible team of the Biblical Philology and Ancient East Department of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC) to publish editions of biblical and parabiblical texts. The project is directed by N. Fernádez Marcos of the CSIC Institute of Philology in Madrid. The manuscript is identified by C. D. Ginsburg as Codex No. 1 of the Madrid University Library (Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible [reprint; New York: KTAV, 1966], pp. 771– 776). It includes the entire Hebrew Bible except for a missing folio which included Exod 19:33b–24:7b; a full edition of the Masorah Magna and the Masorah Parva, and four Masoretic appendices, which Ginsburg describes in some, although not full, detail. The provenance of the codex is Toledo, 1280, which makes it the oldest manuscript found in the collection of Spanish biblical manuscripts of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. As a model codex employed for the production of manuscripts and text editions of the Hebrew Bible, Codex M1 has been identified as the primary manuscript employed in the composition of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible (Ma OrtegaMonasterio , “Spanish Biblical Hebrew Manuscripts,” HS 45 [2004]: 164, 168–169, n. 13). Prior to the publication of the present volume, the project has published or expects to publish text editions of the masoretic notes for each of the five books of the Pentateuch contained within the manuscript, including Genesis (E. Fernández Tejero, Las masoras del libro de Génesis [Códice M1 de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; in press, 2004]); Exodus (M. T. Ortega Monasterio, Las masoras del libro de Éxodo [Códice M1 de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, 2002]); Leviticus (M. J. de Azcárraga Servert, Las masoras del libro de Levíticos [Códice M1 de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; in press, 2004]); Numbers (M. J. de Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 394 Reviews Azcárraga Servert, Las masoras del libro de Números [Códice M1 de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, 2001]); and Deuteronomy (M. G. Seijas de los Ríos-Zarzosa, Las masoras del libro de Deuteronomio [Códice M1 de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, 2002]). Martín Contreras presents a text edition of appendices 1, 3, and 4 of Madrid Codex M1. Apendix 2, which appears following the books of Kings in the Codex, includes a list of variant readings in the Eastern and Western Masoretic traditions of the books of Kings. It is presented in the manuscript as an ornamental masora that marks the end of the Former Prophets and the beginning of the Latter Prophets. It is therefore not a proper masoretic appendix. Appendix 1 appears immediately following the book of Deuteronomy in the Codex. It includes 1) a list of the sum total of all the pericopes or p r îyôt, the verses, the half verses, the middle words and letters of the books of the Pentateuch, and the number of times that the patah and the pausal accents, }atnah and sôp pasûq, appear in the Pentateuch; 2) the enumeration of the variants between the Ben Asher and Ben Naphtali traditions according to the order of the Pentateuch; and 3) a list of the summaries of each of the fifty-four pericopes or p r îyôt of the Pentateuch. Although Ginsburg lists parts 1 and 2 as separate portions, part 2 is incorporated into part 1 in the text. Appendix 3 appears immediately following the Latter Prophets in the Codex. It includes elements of the original edition...