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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1483
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1483
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Midrash ha-gadol on Deuteronomy, attributed to David Adani.

Notes

• Paper much damaged.
   
• Stained.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Folio 191v contains a record of death of [...] Yitsḥaḳ ibn Dan, dated 1895 (1584), and a record of birth, Yitsḥaḳ ben Se῾adyah, dated 1896 (1585).
   

Extent

191 folios; 191 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'Midrash on Deuteronomy. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1483.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 29; First folios supplied much later. Hard-point ruling visible. Catchwords on every verso. Uniform layout. Words in the last lines have occasionally elongated letters to fill the space.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Hibah ben Ḥarun

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 [192v].
   

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 Eleh ha-devarim
• fol. 14v — Midrash on Ṿa-etḥanan
• fol. 39v — Midrash on ῾Eḳev
• fol. 60r — Midrash on Re᾿eh
• fol. 91r — Midrash on Shofeṭim
• fol. 112r — Midrash on Ki tetse
• fol. 140r — Midrash on Ki tavo
• fol. 153v — Midrash on Nitsavim
• fol. 160v — Midrash on Ṿa-yelekh
• fol. 165r — Midrash on Haʾazinu
• fol. 180v — Midrash on Zot ha-berakhah