Editing Aleppo Codex (section)

===Ransom from Crusaders (1100)===
The Karaite Jewish community of Jerusalem received the book from Israel ben Simha of [[Basra]] sometime between 1040 and 1050.<ref name=judith>{{cite book |last1=Olszowy-Schlanger |first1=Judith |title=Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza |date=1 January 1997 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-49753-5 |page=148 |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004497535_014 |chapter=The Karaite Nesīim}}</ref> It was cared for by the brothers Hizkiyahu and Joshya, Karaite religious leaders who eventually moved to [[Fustat]] (today part of [[Old Cairo]]) in 1050. The codex, however, stayed in Jerusalem until the latter part of that century.<ref name=judith/> After the [[Siege of Jerusalem (1099)]] during the [[First Crusade]], the Crusaders held the codex for ransom.<ref name=ols>Olszowy: pp. 54-55 and footnote #86</ref><ref name=codex>[http://www.aleppocodex.org/10.html The Vicissitudes of the Aleppo Codex] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111184728/http://www.aleppocodex.org/10.html |date=2008-01-11 }}&nbsp;– See ''4.4 The Crusades and the Ransoming of Books''. Retrieved on 2008–03–04.</ref> Letters in the [[Cairo Geniza]] describe the inhabitants of [[Ashkelon]] borrowing money from Egypt to "buy back two hundred and thirty Bible codices, a hundred other volumes, and eight Torah Scrolls" from the Crusaders<ref>Goitein, S.D. ''A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza. Vol. V: The Individual: Portrait of a Mediterranean Personality of the High Middle Ages as Reflected in the Cairo Geniza''. University of California Press, 1988 ({{ISBN|0520056477}}), pg. 376</ref> which may have included the codex.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Synagogue in Old Cairo {{!}} Discarded History |url=https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/discardedhistory/case/a-synagogue-in-old-cairo/ |website=Cambridge University Library |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=3 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="codex" /><ref name="ols" /> A Judeo-Arabic inscription on the lost first page of the Codex described that the book was
{{blockquote|Transferred according to the [[Pidyon shvuyim|commandment to redeem captives]], from the loot of the holy city of Jerusalem, may she be rebuilt and reestablished, to the Egyptian congregation, to the Jerusalemite synagogue, may [Jerusalem] be rebuilt and reestablished in the life of Israel. Blessed be he who preserves it and cursed be he who steals it or sells it or pawns it. [[Herem (priestly gift)|It may never be sold or bought]].<ref name=":0" />}}