The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context

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for the Targum MSS) only the Hebrew text is taken into account;
moreover many libraries have very old catalogues, made without
sufficient examination, and others have as yet no special catalogue of
the Oriental MSS. (c) The list of microfilms of the Institute of Hebrew
Manuscripts in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For this we have
access to both a partial exposition, and a general—although very
insufficient—exposition, either in three volumes published, or in the
microcards.
In an 'Outline" published by the Institute of Microfilmed MSS in
Jerusalem (during the Third World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1961)
the number of Hebrew MSS (both biblical and non-biblical) in the
world was about 59,800, spread over 766 libraries throughout the
world; to these should be added another 207,262 fragments of Hebrew
and Aramaic MSS.
In a memoir of the activities of the first 15 years of work done by
the same Institute of Microfilmed MSS (at the National and University
Library, Jerusalem) published in Jerusalem (1965) all the Hebrew and
Aramaic MSS in the world were estimated at about 60,000 MSS, and
about 200,000 fragments of MSS. Of all these MSS only about ten per
cent are biblical. Most of these MSS are in Great Britain and in Russia,
but there are also MSS in Italy, and in many other nations.
Italy: Rome 350, Ancona 120, Turin 300, Livorno 100,
Milan 190, Mantova 170, Ferrara 100, Parma 1,500
France: 2,250 Hebr. MSS., Strasbourg 200
Germany: Hamburg 560, Tubingen 320, Marburg 200
Austria: Vienna 250
Hungary: Budapest 1,000
Poland: Warsaw 1,500
England: about 11,000 MSS; London 20 libraries, 4,000 MSS
and 5,000 fragments; Oxford 8 libraries, 300 MSS, 20,000
fragments; Letchworth 2 libraries, 1,300 MSS, 200 fragments;
Cambridge 10 libraries, 1,260 MSS, 103,000 fragments. In
the area of London: 40 libraries, 9,560 MSS and 128,200
fragments; the remaining 11,000 MSS and 140,000 fragments
are in England outside the London area. According to
N. Allony 14 in Cambridge can be found: University Library:
14. N. Allony, 'Genizah and Hebrew MSS in the Cambridge Libraries', Areset 3
(1961), pp. 395-96.