Editing Aleppo Codex (section)

==Physical description==
The Codex, as it presents itself now in the Israel Museum where it is kept in a vault, consists of the 294 pages delivered by the Ben-Zvi Institute,<ref name=Pfeffer /><ref name="Tawil" /> plus one full page and a section of a second one recovered subsequently.<ref name=holy /> The pages are preserved unbound and written on both sides.<ref name=holy /> Each page is parchment, 33&nbsp;cm high by 26.5&nbsp;cm wide (13 inches × 10.43 inches).<ref>Hayim Tawil & Bernard Schneider, ''Crown of Aleppo'' (Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Soc., 2010) page 110; Izhak Ben-Zvi, "The Codex of Ben Asher", ''Textus,'' vol. 1 (1960) page 2, reprinted in Sid Z. Leiman, ed., ''The Canon and Masorah of the Hebrew Bible, an Introductory Reader'' (NY, Ktav Pubg. House, 1974) page 758.</ref> In particular, only the last few pages of the [[Torah]] are extant.<ref>The surviving text begins with the last word of Deuteronomy 28:17; Izhak Ben-Zvi, "The Codex of Ben Asher", ''Textus,'' vol. 1 (1960) page 2, reprinted in Sid Z. Leiman, ed., ''The Canon and Masorah of the Hebrew Bible, an Introductory Reader'' (NY, Ktav Pubg. House, 1974) page 758.</ref> The [[Iron gall ink|ink]] was made of three types of [[gall]], ground and mixed with black [[soot]] and [[Iron(II) sulfate#Colorant|iron sulfate]].<ref name=holy />

The manuscript has been restored by specialists of the Israel Museum, whose director declared that, given the Codex's history, it is "in remarkably excellent condition".<ref name=holy /> The purple markings on the edges of the pages were found to be [[mold]] rather than [[fire]] damage.<ref name=holy />