The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context

78 The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context
following sources: For the Pentateuch: (1) MS Escorial G-III-3
(Gen. 1-32 is missing); (2) Villa-Amil n. 6 64 (contains Onqelos in
197 fols. s. XIII-XIV, the 4 fols. missing written by Alphonso de
Zamora, Tiberian vocalization and accents); (3) Volume I of the
Complutensian Polyglot, where Onqelos is also published.
For the Former Prophets nothing has been published in the
Complutensian Polyglot, because 'it was full of Talmudists' tales' (as
is said in the Prologue of the Complutensian Polyglot). There are
three MSS: (1) The MS corresponding to the Former Prophets was
sent from Alcala to Rome, and there was bought by Andreas Masius;
according to the Arias Montano letters, this MS contained only the
Aramaic text, and somebody had begun to translate it into Latin, but
only the first 20 verses had been translated—today it is considered
lost; (2) MS 7542 from the National Library (Madrid), written by
Alphonso de Zamora contains the Former Prophets in 235 fols. (containing
the Former Prophets and Ruth); (3) MS 1 of the University
Library of Salamanca (containing the Former Prophets and Ruth).
For the Latter Prophets: (1) MS Villa-Amil n. 4 of the Madrid
University (MS 116-Z-39), with 289 fols., finished in 1517 (it contains
the Latter Prophets and Lamentations); (2) Md 3 of the University of
Salamanca, with 144 fols., finished in 1532 (it contains Ezekiel and the
XII Minor Prophets); (3) MS Warner 65 F of Leiden (it contained
Isaiah and probably Jeremiah, but today there remains only the
Prologue).
For the Hagiographa: (1) MS Villa-Amil n. 4 from the Complutensian
University of Madrid (n. 116-Z-40) (it contains Esther, Job,
Psalms, Proverbs, Qohelet, Canticles, written by Alphonso—from it I
have published Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Qohelet, Canticles); (2) MS 2
from the Salamanca University Library, written by Alphonso de
Zamora (it contains Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Qohelet,
Canticles); (3) MS G-I-5 from El Escorial Library, written in 1475 (it
contains Psalms incomplete, Ruth, Esther).
The Sephardic tradition is transmitted, consequently, not only in the
Targum Onqelos published in the first volume of the Complutensian
Polyglot Bible, but also in Alphonso de Zamora's MSS, prepared for
64. J. Perez Villa-Amil y Castro, Catdlogo de los Manuscritos existentes en la
Biblioteca de Noviciado de la Universidad Central (procedentes de la antigua de
Alcalti), I C6dices, Madrid 1878: the number of the MSS according to the numbers
given by this Catalogue.