CODEX CAIRO OF THE BIBLE From the Karaite Synagoge at Abbasiya . . . 590.00   . CODEX CAIRO OF THE BIBLE From the Karaite Synagoge at Abbasiya   The Cairo manuscript of the Prophets is considered the earliest extant Hebrew manuscript. The Cairo Ms. of the Prophets was written, according to the colophon, in Tiberias in the year 895, by Moses ben Asher. If this member of the distinguished family of Masorites is indeed the scribe, and there are insufficient reasons to doubt this fact, then the Cairo Ms, bears the earliest date of all Hebrew manuscripts in existence. The manuscript differs in vital points from the tradl-tion of Aron Ben Asher.