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Title

Midrash Daṿid (Be-reshit) (מדרש דוד (בראשית))

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 66
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_66
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Midrashic expositions on the pericopes and haftarot of the book of Genesis.

Notes

• Lacuna after folio 305.
   
• Stained.
   
• Yom Ṭov Berakhah: inscribed, folio 2r.
   

Extent

334 folios; 334 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'David ben Abraham. Comm. on Genesis. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 66.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Catchwords on every verso. Titles written in larger characters. Running titles on every page. Visible hard-point ruling.

Script

Two Oriental semi-cursive scripts of 17 to 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A. C. Reichardt: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 June 1867: inscribed, folio [335v].
   

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. 2r — Introduction to Be-reshit
• fol. 7r — Be-reshit
• fol. 31r — Hafṭarah
• fol. 36r — Noaḥ
• fol. 61r — Hafṭarah
• fol. 65r — Lekh lekha
• fol. 90v — Ṿa-yera
• fol. 103r — Hafṭarah
• fol. 109v — Ḥaye Sarah
• fol. 125v — Hafṭarah
• fol. 130v — Toledot
• fol. 152v — Hafṭarah
• fol. 155v — Ṿa-yetse
• fol. 178r — Hafṭarah
• fol. 183v — Ṿa-yishlaḥ
• fol. 195r — Hafṭarah
• fol. 200r — Ṿa-yeshev
• fol. 225v — Hafṭarah
• fol. 244v — Mi-ḳets
• fol. 253v — Hafṭarah
• fol. 277v — Ṿa-yigash
• fol. 300r — Hafṭarah
• fol. 304r — Ṿa-yeḥi
• fol. 311r — Naso