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

Title

Midrash Shemot (מדרש שמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2785
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2785
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

The second part of Se῾adyah ben Daṿid Adani's homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

103 folios; 103 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Said Al-Adani. On Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2785.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Titles written in larger characters.

Script

Yemenite square script of 15th century. Se῾adyah ben Daṿid Adani: probably an autograph of the work; inscribed on folio 102v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Library from him on 20 June 1844: inscribed, folio [134v].
   

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 — Shemot
• fol. 8v — Ṿa-era
• fol. 16v — Bo
• fol. 24r — Be-shalaḥ
• fol. 35r — Yitro
• fol. 43r — Mishpaṭim
• fol. 54r — Terumah
• fol. 65r — Tetsaveh
• fol. 77v — Ki-tisa
• fol. 88r — Ṿa-yakhel
• fol. 95r — Peḳude