National Library of Russia, cited here as an institutional record, is the library's own account of its founding in 1795 and its custody of the Firkovich manuscript collection, which includes the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in the Masoretic tradition. The library is one of Russia's two national libraries under the Ministry of Culture, with professional cataloguing standards, so its record of holding and provenance is reliable as far as it goes. Its limit is that it establishes custody facts, not a scholarly textual analysis of the codex itself. Cite it for the library and its custody of the collection; textual questions need a dedicated codicological or biblical studies source.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Source-type Library, precedent 2 of 2 tiered Library-shaped rows are tier 1 (small sample). NotesNational Library of Russia's own custodial record for the object it holds. A standing institutional or private-holder record, not a scholarly publication; use for provenance and holding-institution facts, not for the object's own history or meaning.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyNational Library of Russia
Custodian BasisThe library's own account of its founding, governance and its custody of the Firkovich manuscript collection containing the Leningrad Codex.
Citation
PublisherNational Library of Russia
URLhttps://nlr.ru/eng/
Source TypeLibrary
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This source names Russia directly: "National Library of Russia, cited here as an institutional record, is the library's own account of its founding in 1795 and its custody of the Firkovich manuscript collection, which includes the..."
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- Sources, 10 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Custodians & Museums, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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