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Title

Midrash (מדרש)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1481
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1481
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A short midrash on the Pentateuch, in Hebrew and Arabic.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Many pages are lightly damaged and/or worm-eaten.
   
• Folio 88v contains rules relating to shehitah in the form of question and answer, probably of 17th century.
   

Extent

88 folios; 88 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'Midrash on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1481.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 30; Some catchwords preserved. Extensive marginal notes (upper, lower, inner and outer margins filled). Occasional notes between the lines. Chapter and section titles written in larger characters.

Script

Yemenite square script of 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877: inscribed, folio [98v].
   

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 — Midrash on Genesis
• fol. 19r — Midrash on Exodus
• fol. 39r — Midrash on Leviticus
• fol. 59r — Midrash on Numbers
• fol. 71r — Midrash on Deuteronomy