Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis) [Student Loose Leaf Facsimile in Black and White with about 20 Color Pictures. 2012]

To a person studying the scriptures having the original to look at is unbelievably helpful. True this is a reproduction or copy, but what do you expect when there’s only one of something. The best part is I can learn the language much better. Then there’s the jots and titles Jesus was talking about. It’s interesting to note here that most recent Hebrew Tanakhs written in Hebrew are from this codex. A second note to the first is the knowledge that the Hebrew Scribes are a stickler for absolute exact copy from codex to the open sheet of paper. Right down to the jots and titles.

The page images are small due to it being on 8.5x11, which I expected. But I did expect all the page size to be maximized with the narrowest possible margins. This is not the case.

The product is loose-leaf, three hole, copied sheets, front and back, 8.5x11 pages black and white photocopies. There are about twenty "carpet pages" in color copies.You can find actual scans of page BH 19 /Leningradensis online in PDF files (free). This should have satisfied me because the page can be enlarged as most PDF files make provision. I wanted and actual, physical "book" (this one must be placed in an appropriate binder of your own). The original codex was 8x13" and so there is a reduction for an 8x11 copy page. Take white space margins and you lose several more inches. I have a printer that would print full size or even slightly larger pages. 999 pages. I sure I would have spent almost or more to print these pages myself from a PDF, etc., plus quite a day of work and aggravation. $68 was a fair price, I suppose to get them ready made.However, my purpose for having the book (pages) was because I wanted to see the massorah magna and parva (notes) well. I used a magnifying glass and light but not satisfied at all. Perhaps you have a bigger one! You can reasonably see the text itself, but I have a BHS and a larger page format I am using in combination with my own translation work on 9x13 pages. Oh well. But I have so much cash, I can blow some on a volume to sit on the shelf. Live and learn. This is not the purchase to make if you want to see ALL the page material clearly.The package arrived a little later than expected acc. USPS, and the heavy kraft paper wrapping was slit open at some corners, but no pages were bent of damaged, and all was well wrapped in plastic. So that's not bad from Arizona(?) to Tennessee. I have not been able to buy a facsimile edition of BH19 and never seen one up close and personal. But the were once $500 and perhaps as low as $190 now. Too rich for me. $68 was manageable--barely.