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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2215
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2215
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

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

Notes

• One leaf missing after folio 130 and 168 respectively.
   
• Folio 3 is a recent restoration.
   
• Folios 1-2 and 186-187 are vellum.
   
• Several pages water-damaged.
   
• First few leaves damaged, preserved on paper.
   
• Folios 1r-2v, 186r-187vand contain Deuteronomy, chapters 13:7-18, 15:13-16:15, 30:20-31:10: Hebrew text with the sublinear punctuation, Targum with the simple superlinear puntuation, and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic version in Hebrew characters. Has masorah magna and parva.
   
• Daṿid ben Sa῾id: stamped, folio 109v.
   

Extent

187 folios; 187 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Leviticus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2215.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 34; written lines: 34; Some marginal notes and additions. Hard-point ruling visible. Catchwords on every verso, partly preserved.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of early 17th 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 [188v].
   

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. 3r — Midrash on Ṿa-yiḳra
• fol. 31r — Midrash on Tsaṿ
• fol. 48v — Midrash on Shemini
• fol. 69v — Midrash on Tazri῾a
• fol. 87r — Midrash on Metsora῾
• fol. 108v — Midrash on Aḥare mot
• fol. 127r — Midrash on Ḳedoshim
• fol. 138v — Midrash on Emor
• fol. 162v — Midrash on Be-har
• fol. 173r — Midrash on Be-ḥuḳotai