On Nehemiah: Text and Manuscripts

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Sub artaxerse etiam neemias , accepta epistula de legatione, in jerusalem rediit; muros cum sex portis hic annotatis in angustia construxit; populum ab usuris liberauit; ignem nouum de stipitibus absconsis a jeremia suscepit; legente esdra in scenophegia , ieiunio .xxiiia. die statuto, populum ad audiendam legem quater in die et quarter in nocte conuenire fecit; decimo capite in jerusalem retento , ad celebrationem sabbati populum induxit.

Under Artaxerxes, Nehemiah, having received a letter of embassy, also returned to Jerusalem. He rebuilt the walls with the six gates, which he had observed with distress. He freed the people from usury, and received new fire from logs hidden by Jeremiah. While Ezra was reading at the Feast of Tabernacles, on the twenty-third day, while fasting, Nehemiah convened the people to hear the law four times during the day and four at night. He kept a tenth of the population in Jerusalem and introduced the celebration of the sabbath to the people.

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Image excerpts from the manuscripts (as grouped by main graph versions) are the result of tool-based image annotation (via Cadmus) or manual extraction. For each manuscript version only these visually annotated manuscripts are listed here. For the grouping of all manuscripts we provide a separate list (Manuscript groups). Transcriptions are semi-diplomatic following project specific rules.

Version

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

Sub artaxerse etiam neemias. accep
ta epistula de legatione in ierusalem
redijt. muros cum. vj portis hic
annotatis in angustia construxit.
populum ab usuris liberauit. ignem no
uum de stipitibus absconsis a ieremia suscepit. legente esdra
in scenophegia. ieiunio xxa. iija. die statuto. populum ad audien
dam legem. quater in die. et quarter in nocte conuenire fecit.
Decimo capite in ierusalem retento. ad celebrationem sabbatj. populum
induxit.

Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Sub artaxerse etiam neemias accepta epistula de legatione in ierusalem re
diit muros cum vii. portis hic annotatis in angustia construxit populum ab
usuris liberauit. ignem nouum de stipitibus absconsis a ieremia suscepit le
gente Esdra in scenophegia ieiunio xx. iii. die statuto. populo ad audi
endam legem. quater in die. et quater in nocte conuenire fecit. Decimo capite
retento. in ierusalem ad celebrationem sabbati populum induxit.

Linz, Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek, Hs. 490 (Schiffmann 26) (Lz1)

Manuscript group AT2

Köln, Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, W 247 (Kö)

Manuscript group BE1

Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Cod. 696 (K)

Manuscript group FR1

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Sub eodem artaxerse etiam neemias acce
pta epistula de legatione in ierusalem rediit.
muros cum vi. portis hic annotatis in ang
ustia construxit. populum ab usuris li
berauit. ignem nouum de stipiti
bus absconsis a ieremia susce
pit. legente esdra in scenophe
gia. ieiunio xxaiija die statuto. populum ad
audiendam legem. quater in die et quater in
nocte conuenire fecit decimo capite in
ierusalem retento ad celebrationem sabbati po
pulum induxit.

Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Sal. IX, 40 (H)

Manuscript group GB3

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

Sub artaxerse etiam neemias accepta epistula de legatione in ierusalem. re
diit. muros cum .vi. portis hic annotatis in angustia construxit.
populum ab usuris liberauit. ignem nouum de stipitibus absconsis
a ieremia suscepit. legente esdra in cenophegia. ieiunio .xxiii.
die statuto. populum ad audiendam legem quater in die. et quarter
in nocte conuenire fecit .x. capite in ierusalem retento ad cele
brationem sabbati populum induxit.

Version 2

Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1973.5 (Cl)

Admont, Benediktinerstift, Cod. 128 (Ad)

Manuscript group AT3

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 15.11 (F1)

Manuscript group FR3

Version 3

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 83 (C3)

Manuscript group GB2

Version 4

Frankfurt am Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. germ. quart 13 (Fm)

Manuscript group CH1

Citation recommendation

On Nehemiah: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-subArtaxerse.

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Data modeling, data curation and web design: Jakob Sonnberger
Project principal investigators: Andrea Worm, Roman Bleier and Patrick Sahle
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