The codex was deposited with the British Library in London, where it was publicly displayed only once, in late 1982, at an exhibition devoted to Hebrew manuscripts from the Sassoon Collection.

The entire Bible would have been a roll of immense length. It would have been clumsy and impractical. It would have made the location of a text very difficult, especially if the desired text ...

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Zalman Alpert, now retired, was the reference librarian at Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library of Judaica for many years.