The codex is written on parchment and bound in leather. There are also various technical supplements dealing with textual and linguistic details, many of which are painted in geometrical forms. In addition, there are masoretic notes in the margins. The biblical text as found in the codex contains the Hebrew letter-text along with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Heb B 3) which is even older (916 CE), but contains only the later Prophets. This is ambiguous as, since 1876, these appellations refer to a different biblical codex (MS. Nonetheless, the Codex is occasionally referred to as the Codex Petersburgensis or Petropolitanus, or the St. Although the city's name was restored to the original St Petersburg after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the National Library of Russia requested that 'Leningrad' be retained in the name of the codex. In 1924, after the Russian Revolution, Petrograd (formerly Saint Petersburg) was renamed Leningrad, and, because the codex was used as the basic text for the Biblia Hebraica since 1937, it became internationally known as the 'Leningrad Codex'. The Leningrad Codex (a codex is a handwritten book bound at one side, as opposed to a scroll) is so named because it has been housed at the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg since 1863 (before 1917 named Imperial Public Library). It also serves as a primary source for the recovery of details in the missing parts of the Aleppo Codex. In modern times, the Leningrad Codex is significant as the Hebrew text reproduced in Biblia Hebraica (1937), Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1977), and Biblia Hebraica Quinta (2004вЂ“present). The Aleppo Codex is several decades older, but parts of it have been missing since the 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo, making the Leningrad Codex the oldest complete codex of the Tiberian mesorah that has survived intact to this day. Kahle argues that the Leningrad manuscript was more likely based on other, lost manuscripts by the ben Asher family. Some have proposed that the Leningrad Codex was corrected against the slightly earlier Aleppo Codex. There are older manuscripts of translations into other languages, such as the 4th-century Codex Vaticanus in Greek (surviving almost complete). According to its colophon, it was made in Cairo in 1008 CE (or possibly 1009).

The Leningrad Codex ( Latin: Codex Leningradensis, the ' codex of Leningrad') is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization. Leningrad Codex (cover page E, folio 474a)

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