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

Title

Midrash Esther.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4843
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4843
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

Midrash on the book of Esther.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning.
   
• Folios missing after folios 6 and 52.
   
• Some folios damaged.
   
• Crossed out English description in English, folio [ii recto].
   
• Calculation schemes on folio 91v.
   

Extent

91 folios; 91 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'Midrash on Esther. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4843.' Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Has many marginal notes. Erasures in the owner's note.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Morris Heller & Weiss: bought by the British Museum on 14 November 1894, inscribed folio [93v].
   

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 אסתר
• fol. 1r — Midrash Ester