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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1482
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1482
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

First part of Midrash ha-gadol on Exodus.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Folio 24r contains a narrative on Moses, probably inserted here by the scribe (not in other versions of the same treatise).
   
• Two leaves, folio 156r-157v, are appended, containing fragments on the computation of various eras by Muhamad ibn Abi Bakr al-Farisi, written ca. 16th century.
   
• The fly-leaf at the end, folio fse001r, contains a small part of the commentary of Rashi on the last chapter of Deuteronomy.
   
• Afizi ben Shalom ben Yosef ben Zekharyah, writing for Se῾adyah ben Shalom, Daṿid ben Shalom and Yosef ben Shalom, inscribed in the colophon, folio 155v.
   

Extent

157 folios; 157 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Black buckram. Spine title: 'Midrash on Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1482.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Uniform layout. Marginal notes.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive 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 [159v].
   

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 הגדול
• fol. 1r — Midrash ha-gadol