Aleppo Codex

The Aleppo Codex, also known as the Crown of Aleppo, is one of the most important medieval manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible. It was written in Tiberias around the 10th century and represents the Masoretic tradition, the careful system Jewish scribes used to preserve the exact letters, vowels, accents, and pronunciation of the Tanakh.

It became especially famous because Maimonides/Rambam trusted it as an authoritative text when discussing the correct writing of Torah scrolls. For centuries it was kept by the Jewish community of Aleppo, Syria, but after riots in 1947, parts of the manuscript went missing. The surviving pages are now kept in Israel and remain one of the greatest treasures of Hebrew and Jewish textual history.