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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2213
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2213
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

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

Notes

• Folios 173 and 175 are slightly mutilated.
   
• Partly water-damaged in the top part of the folios.
   
• Folio 1r is a doodle-page.
   

Extent

175 folios; 175 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Genesis. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2213.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 33 34; written lines: 33 34; Many marginal notes and additions.

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 13 December 1879: inscribed, folio [176v].
   

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 — Introductory midrash
• fol. 6r — Midrash on Be-reshit
• fol. 41r — Midrash on Noaḥ
• fol. 53v — Midrash on Lekh lekha
• fol. 67r — Midrash on Va-yera᾿
• fol. 82v — Midrash on Ḥaye Sarah
• fol. 94v — Midrash on Toledot
• fol. 106r — Midrash on Ṿa-yetse
• fol. 117v — Midrash on Ṿa-yishlaḥ
• fol. 129r — Midrash on Ṿa-yeshev
• fol. 139v — Midrash on Mi-ḳets
• fol. 151v — Midrash on Ṿa-yigash
• fol. 159v — Midrash on Ṿa-yeḥi