Or 1482 Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)
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
Publisher
British LibraryLanguage
HebrewOrigin
1563
- Place
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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 foliosSupport
PaperBinding
Post-1600. Black buckram. Spine title: 'Midrash on Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1482.'Layout
Script
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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