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Title

Midrash Shemot (מדרש שמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 67
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_67
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Place

Egypt

Summary

Parts of a homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folio 83, 223, 251.
   
• Stained.
   
• Ink occasionaly blurred.
   
• Slightly worm-eaten.
   

Extent

269 folios; 269 folios

Foliation

Original Hebrew foliation is preserved for the most part.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'David ben Abraham. Comm. on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 67.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Catchwords on every verso. Visible hard-point ruling, verso by verso. Original Hebrew folation is preserved, modestly decorated by penand ink design. Running titles, mostly not preserved. Between pages 64v to 72v the Hebrew text is given in red ink. Titles of chapters are given in larger characters.

Script

Three Sefardi/Oriental square scripts of 17th century.Yosef ben Ye'udah ben Benyamin Sheḥatah: inscribed, folio 247r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A. C. Reichardt: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 June 1867: inscribed, folio [270v].
   

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. 13r — Ṿa-era
• fol. 30v — Bo
• fol. 47v — Be-shalaḥ
• fol. 64v — Yitro
• fol. 84r — Mishpaṭim
• fol. 112r — Terumah
• fol. 133r — Tetsaveh
• fol. 193r — Ki-tisa - Parah adumah
• fol. 222r — Ṿa-Yakhel - Peḳude
• fol. 250r — Yitro
• fol. 260v — Megilat Mitsrayim
• fol. 264r — Exposition on the Ten Commandments