Oxford LibGuides: Manuscripts: Asian and Middle Eastern: Hebraica, Judaica & Semitics

Contact the curators

Cesar Merchan-Hamann
Phone: +44 (0)1865 277031
Rahel Fronda
Phone: +44 (0)1865 277602

Subject guide

A Hebraic, Judaic & Semitic collections subject guide
A short online subject guide to the Bodleian's collections of Hebrew, Judaic & Semitic manuscripts and rare books.

Ethiopic

All links here are to the SOLO library record for the book/journal, which gives further details and location information.

Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliotecae Bodleianae Oxoniensis, pars vii, Codices Aethiopici,
by A. Dillmann (Oxford, 1848). Shelfmarked: 2590 d. Oxf. 1a 15 (7)
Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. 2
by E. Ullendorff (Oxford, 1951).

Hebrew

All links here (with the exception of the Cairo Genizah which is an online resource) link to the SOLO library record for the printed book/journal, which gives further details and location information.

Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (2 volumes)
by A. Neubauer (Oxford, 1886).
Catalogue of Cairo Genizah
Digitized copies of 4,000 fragments (about 25,000 pages) in Hebrew from the Bible, Early Rabbinic literature, liturgical fragments, legal documents and letters, both personal and commercial. Contains a complete scan of the unpublished 'Additional Genizah Fragments' catalogue by A.E. Cowley.
Additional Geniza fragments [not recorded in Neubauer]
by A.E. Cowley, Unpublished typescript, c.1929. See also a digitized version at the Cairo Genizah online catalogue linked above [genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk]
Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Supplement of addenda and corrigenda to vol.1 (Neubauer's Catalogue)
by M. Beit-Arié (Oxford, 1994).
A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
by Alan Coates ... [et al.] ; blockbooks, woodcut and metalcut single sheets by Nigel F. Palmer ; an inventory of Hebrew incunabula by Silke Schaeper (6 vols.; Oxford, 2005).
Catalogus librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana
by M. Steinschneider (Berlin, 1852-1860). (The original catalogue of Hebrew printed books.)
A concise catalogue of the Hebrew printed books in the Bodleian Library
by A.E. Cowley (Oxford, 1929). (Based on Steinschneider, lists all Hebrew books in the Library in 1927).