[Mesorah] Te'amim in 5242 Bologna Chumash

[David Cohen via Mesorah]

I've been looking at cases where the assignment of te'amim to a word in
many contemporary Chumashim / Tanachim (e.e. Koren, which generally follows
R' Wolf Heidenheim's editions) not only differs from the editions edited by
R' Mordechai Breuer, but doesn't even get mentioned in his "HaNusach
uMekorotav" (at the beginning of Da'at Mikra for each book of Tanach),
meaning that none of the sources he considered authoritative (Leningrad
Codex, JNUL 5702, Sassoon 1053, Venice Mikraot Gedolot, and Minchat Shai,
or the lists of differences between Ben Asher and Ben Naftali) had it that
way.

One of the more well-known cases, which has been discussed her before, is
the revi'a (as opposed to azla geresh) on "katonti" (Bereshit 32:11).
Another one appears in this week's parasha -- a zakef katon (as opposed to
revia) on "amarti" (Bereshit 20:11).

Looking around the various old Chumashim / Tanachim on the National Library
website (http://aleph.nli.org.il/nnl/dig/books_bib.html), I found that in
both of these cases:

1.  The vast majority of the pre-Heindenheim chumashim have it the same way
as all of R' Breuer's sources.

2.  In Heidenheim's "Ein HaKorei" (
http://aleph.nli.org.il/nnl/dig/books/bk001277723.html), he cites the
Soncino edition of 5248 as his source for doing it differently.

3.  The te'amim assignment favored by Heidenheim also appears in the
Bologna Chumash of 5242 (
http://aleph.nli.org.il/nnl/dig/books/bk001158964.html), which was the
first chumash ever printed with te'amim, and predates the aforementioned
Soncino Tanach by 6 years.

According to http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4526, the
same printer (Avraham ben Hayim) was involved in both the Bologna and
Soncino editions, so perhaps this is not a surprise.  But the question is
what manuscripts were used to prepare these printed editions.  Does anybody
know if there are known manuscripts that have these "variant" te'amim
printed in the Bologna and Soncino printings, and propagated (through
Heidenheim, and later Koren) to some of our contemporary Chumashim?

-- D.C.
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