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Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2354
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2354
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

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

Notes

• Some poetical pieces appended on the end-flyleaves, on folio 1v and 164r.
   
• Se'adyah: inscribed, folio 164r, 163v.
   
• Musa ibn Yaḥya Al-Sari: inscribed, folio 2r, 163v.
   

Extent

167 folios; 167 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

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

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Marginal notes and additions. Hard-point ruling visible.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 13 December 1879, inscribed, folio [168v].
   

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. 2v — Midrash on Be-midbar
• fol. 10r — Midrash on Naso᾿
• fol. 31v — Midrash on Be-ha῾alotekha
• fol. 52r — Midrash on Shelaḥ lekha
• fol. 69v — Midrash on Ḳoraḥ
• fol. 82v — Midrash on Ḥuḳat
• fol. 103v — Midrash on Balaḳ
• fol. 116v — Midrash on Pinḥas
• fol. 138r — Midrash on Maṭot
• fol. 148v — Midrash on Masʿe