Sanbuki Codex
Is a Hebrew manuscript, now no more extant. Nothing is known of its author, the place where, and the time when it was written. According to Richard Simon (Biblioth. Critic. 1, 367), the name Sanbuki () is derived from the owner of the MS., a Hungarian family. According to Hottinger (in Bibliothecario Quadripartito, p. 158, ed. Turic.), the name ought to be instead of , which is equivalent to Zadduki, or Sadducee. For other conjectures, see Wolf (Bibl. Hebr. 2, 292, 293; 4, 79) and Tychsen (Tentamen, p. 249, 250). As to the codex itself, some of its readings are given in the margin of some MSS., as in Cod. Kennic. 415; Cod. Kennic. 8 (Bibl. Bodl. Hunting. 69; comp. Brunsius, Ad Kenn. Diss. Genesis p. 345). Besides, this codex is quoted three times by Menachem di Lonzano in his commentary Or Thora, as on Gen 9:14, (fol. 2 b, fin. ed. Amstel): , i.e. in the Codex Hillel, the nun has only the sh’va (:), but in the Codex Sanbuki the sh’va with the patach; Lev 13:20, (fol. 14 b), , i.e. in the Codex Sanbuki the in is written with the patach; Lev 26:36, (fol. 15 b), , i.e. in Spanish and German MSS. there is a gaya (i.e. a metheg) under , but not so in the Codd. Hillel, Jerusalem, and Sanbuki. See Strack, Prolegomena Critica in Vetus Test. Hebr. (Lips. 1873), p. 22. SEE MANUSCRIPTS, BIBLICAL. (B.P.)