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Title

Midrash (מדרש)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1422
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1422
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Midrashim in Hebrew and Arabic on Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, followed by a short midrashic commentary on the Hafṭarot.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Slightly water-damaged.
   
• Se'adyah ben Shelomoh: probably a compiler of this manuscript: inscribed, folio 61r. The Judeo-Arabic sentence at the end of Deuteronomy, folio 189v, implies that the author had employed a copyist.
   

Extent

206 folios; 206 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1422.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 34; written lines: 34; Catchwords on every verso. Titles written in larger characters.

Script

Yemenite square script of 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Library from him on 12 January 1877: inscribed, folio [208v].
   

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. 1v — Midrash on Ṿa-yiḳra
• fol. 61v — Midrash on Be-midbar
• fol. 104v — Midrash on Devarim
• fol. 190v — Midrash on Hafṭarot