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Title

Midrash ha-ḥefets (מדרש החפץ)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4840
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4840
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Midrash ha-ḥefets, a philosophical midrash on the Pentateuch by Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe, aka Yaḥya ben Saliman.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Several folios more or less damaged.
   

Extent

214 folios; 214 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Midrash ha-Hefets. Hebrew-Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4840.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 22 24; written lines: 22 24; Occasional marginal notes.

Script

Two Yemenite semi-cursive scripts of 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Morris, Heller & Weiss: purchased by the British Library on 14 November 1894: inscribed, folio [216v].
   

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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