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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2352
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2352
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

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

Notes

• Some folios damaged, restored on paper.
   
• On folio 79r are four short midrashic passages on Deuteronomy.
   
• A note of sale, dated 2028 (1717), between Ya῾akov ben Se῾id ibn Daud and Yehosaf ben Se῾adia ben Avraham ben Mosheh: folio 1r.
   
• Shekhar ibn Al-Sari: inscribed 1r, 78v.
   

Extent

151 folios; 151 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2352.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 38; written lines: 38; Has some marginal notes and additions. Mem and shin are truncated in the lines. Beginnings of new chapters are written in larger characters. Folio 15v should be read after 16r.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 15th century.

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 Shemot
• fol. 16r — Midrash on Ṿa-era
• fol. 24v — Midrash on Bo᾿
• fol. 39v — Midrash on Be-shalakh
• fol. 59v — Midrash on Yitro
• fol. 79v — Midrash on Mishpatim
• fol. 101v — Midrash on Terumah
• fol. 109v — Midrash on Tetsaṿeh
• fol. 116r — Midrash on Ki tisa᾿
• fol. 132r — Midrash on Ṿa-yakhel
• fol. 140r — Midrash on Peḳude
• fol. 148r — Midrash on Terumah and Tetsaṿeh