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Title

Midrash ha-ḥefets (מדרש החפץ)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2351
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2351
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Midrash ha-ḥefets, a philosophical midrash on the Pentateuch by Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe, aka Yaḥya ben Saliman.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Gaps after folios 3, 63, 92.
   
• Several leaves inlaid with tracing paper for preservation.
   
• Folios [i recto], 357r, 357v contain a fragment of Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah Midot 2:4-3:1.
   

Extent

357 folios; 357 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Ha-Chefets. Hebrew and Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2351.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; Titles of chapters and beginning of sections highlighted with red ink. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 15 to 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 28 May 1881, inscribed, folio [358v].
   

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 — Introduction
• fol. 3r — Homily on Be-reshit
• fol. 26r — Homily on Noaḥ
• fol. 34v — Homily on Lekh lekha
• fol. 41v — Homily on Ṿa-yera
• fol. 50r — Homily on Ḥaye Sarah
• fol. 55r — Homily on Toledot
• fol. 61r — Homily on Ṿa-yetse
• fol. 67v — Homily on Ṿa-yishlaḥ
• fol. 72r — Homily on Ṿa-yeshev
• fol. 76r — Homily on Mi-kets
• fol. 81r — Homily Ṿa-yigash
• fol. 84v — Homily on Ṿa-yeḥi
• fol. 90v — Homily on Shemot
• fol. 97r — Homily on Ṿa-᾿era
• fol. 102r — Homily on Bo
• fol. 110r — Homily on Be-shalaḥ
• fol. 122r — Homily on Yitro
• fol. 132r — Homily on Mishpaṭim
• fol. 141v — Homily on Terumah
• fol. 147v — Homily on Tetsaveh
• fol. 151v — Homily on Ki tisa
• fol. 160r — Homily on Ṿa-yaḳhel
• fol. 163r — Homily on Peḳude
• fol. 165v — Homily on Ṿa-yiḳra
• fol. 174v — Homily on Tsaṿ
• fol. 181r — Homily on Shemini
• fol. 187v — Homily on Tazri῾a
• fol. 192v — Homily on Metsora῾
• fol. 198r — Homily on Aḥare mot
• fol. 204r — Homily on Ḳedoshim
• fol. 211v — Homily on Emor
• fol. 220r — Homily on Be-har
• fol. 223v — Homily on Be-ḥuḳotai
• fol. 228r — Homily on Be-midbar
• fol. 231r — Homily on Naso
• fol. 238v — Homily on Be-ha᾿alotekha
• fol. 244r — Homily on Shalaḥ lekha
• fol. 251r — Homily on Ḳoraḥ
• fol. 257r — Homily on Ḥuḳat
• fol. 262r — Homily on Balaḳ
• fol. 266r — Homily on Pinḥas
• fol. 271v — Homily on Maṭot
• fol. 274r — Homily on Mas῾e
• fol. 277v — Homily on Eleh ha-devarim
• fol. 281v — Homily on Ṿa-etḥanan
• fol. 291v — Homily on ῾Eḳev
• fol. 296r — Homily on Re᾿eh
• fol. 303r — Homily on Shofṭim
• fol. 310r — Homily on Ki tetse
• fol. 317r — Homily on Ki tavo
• fol. 321r — Homily on Netsavim
• fol. 326v — Homily on Ha᾿azinu
• fol. 329v — Homily on Zot ha-berakhah
• fol. 341r — משנה תורה
• fol. 341r — Mishneh Torah