Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2355
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2355
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Midrash ha-gadol on Deuteronomy.

Notes

• Slightly imperfect at the end.
   
• Stained.
   
• Folio 1r contains an Arabic-Hebrew record relating to a transaction concerning this manuscript, signed by three witnesses, Zekharya ben Se'adya, Zekharya ben Shelomoh and Shelomoh ben Se'adya.
   

Extent

246 folios; 246 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Deuteronomy. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2355.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Uniform layout, with visible ruling with a hard-point. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

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