Description of British Library, Add MS 16406: Midrash rabah (מדרש רבה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-09-29 2020-09-29 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 16406: Midrash rabah (מדרש רבה) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 16406: Midrash rabah (מדרש רבה). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Margins slightly damaged at the end. Yitsḥaḳ ben Mosheh de Pisa (?): inscribed in a deed of sale, with a witness' name Mordekhai ben Shimshon Ḥizḳiyah, dated Friday, 26 Tishri, folio . Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 16406 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16406 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Four fragments of midrashic commentaries. Hebrew; Midrash rabah (מדרש רבה) 1r מדרש רבה 1r Midrash rabah 137r Sifra 259r Sifre 283v Peṭirat Aharon ve-Mosheh

Parchment

 386 folios; 386 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 24 25; written lines: 24 25; Catchwords at the end of the quire. Has some marginal notes, occasionally cut away. Pricking and hard-point ruling is visible. Ashkenazi square script of approximately 12th century.

Post-1600, brown leather, blind-tooled, with remains of clasps. Spine title: 'I. Bereshith Rabbah. II. Siphra. III. Siphre. IV. Petirath Aharon u-Mosheh. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Additional 16.406.'

Between 1100 and 1199

GreeceItaly Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum from Payne & Foss on 9 January 1847; originally Rezzi collection: inscribed folio [387v].