[Mesorah] Te'amim in 5242 Bologna Chumash

Jeremy Rosenbaum Simon via Mesorah mesorah at lists.aishdas.org
Thu Nov 17 07:46:25 PST 2016


I would ask Jordan Penkower. If anyone knows this, he does.
Jeremy

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:23 AM, David Cohen via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> 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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