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

Title

Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2378
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2378
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Two fragments of Midrash ha-gadol, attributed to David Adani.

Notes

• Several folios partly mutilted.
   
• Numerous folios missing. Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• A note of sale, dated 2113 (1802), between Yuda ibn Avraham Al-ḥa᾿zi and Mosheh ibn Yosef Shahad, inscribed, folio 117r.
   

Extent

261 folios; 261 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash Hag-Gadol. Genesis. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2378.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; First part of the manuscript is divided to 2 columns, the latter part has pages undivided. Many marginal (mostly lexical) notes.

Script

Two Yemenite semi-cursive scripts of late 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, folio [262v].
   

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 — Midrash ha-gadol
• fol. 236r — Midrash ha-gadol