Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Midrash rabah (מדרש רבה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 16406
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16406
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew;

Origin

Place

GreeceItaly

Summary

Four fragments of midrashic commentaries.

Notes

• 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 .
   

Extent

386 folios; 386 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

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.'

Layout

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.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of approximately 12th century.

Provenance

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

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 רבה
• fol. 1r — Midrash rabah
• fol. 137r — Sifra
• fol. 259r — Sifre
• fol. 283v — Peṭirat Aharon ve-Mosheh