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Title

Midrash Aba Orion (מדרש אבא אריון)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 15402
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15402
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Midrash Aba Orion (aka Midrash Aba Gurion) on the book of Esther.

Notes

• Folio 2r & 2v is a modern paper. Contains a description of the manuscript in Latin.
   
• Avraham ben Aharon: inscribed, folio 1v.
   

Extent

18 folios; 18 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Light brown leather, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'Abba Urian. Comm. in Estheram. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 15,402. Plut.' Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24 25; written lines: 24 25; Writing depends from the ruled line. Has a title page with a simple pen and ink design, folio .

Provenance

• Acquisition: Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), Duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, stuck to the inner upper cover; his sale 18 January 1845: inscribed ([19v]), lot 1, purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [מדרש] אבא אריון
• fol. 1r — [Midrash] Aba Orion