The Minor Prophets in Masoretic Manuscripts
The medieval Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible are called Masoretic because they contain the Masorah (“tradition”), which includes elements such as the vowel signs and notes and accent marks and, of course, the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible. The best Masoretic manuscripts that survive, and the oldest, are the Aleppo Codex (925 AD) and the Leningrad Codex (1009 AD). It is the latter, the Leningrad Codex, that serves as the base text for the standard edition of the Hebrew Bible, BHS (and its replacement, BHQ).
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