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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2353
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2353
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

First part of Midrash ha-gadol on Leviticus.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning. Folios wanting after folio 263.
   
• Folio 274r contains a short note, and folio 274v is concerned with a valid contract of marriage.
   
• Zekharyah and Yosef ben Benayah ben Se'adyah ben Margah ben Shelomoh: inscribed, folio 273v, both notes crossed out.
   

Extent

274 folios; 274 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Hag-Gadol. Leviticus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2353.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Marginal notes.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 1881: inscribed, folio [275v].
   

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 — מדרש הגדול
• fol. 1r — Midrash ha-gadol