A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-One So-Called Prose Books of the Old Testament

One Codex, which is in the Synagogue at Aleppo, and which I have been able to consult, although only indirectly, has the reputation Of having come from the hand of ben-asher himself, and of having been, on that account, always regarded as a model Copy for fixing the readings of the Sacred Text. Its claim to the exceptional importance thus assigned to it I have considered in the pages immediately following.