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Title

Midrash Shemot (מדרש שמות)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 68
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_68
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Place

Egypt

Summary

Parts of David ben Abraham Maimuni's homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folios 93, 102, 150.
   
• Slightly damaged.
   

Extent

223 folios; 223 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind tooled. Spine title: 'David ben Abraham. Comm. on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 68.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 23; written lines: 23; Catchwords on every verso. Initial words and chapter titles given in larger square characters.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script of 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A. C. Reichardt: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 June 1867: inscribed, folio [224v].
   

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 — Ṿa-era
• fol. 3v — Bo
• fol. 16r — Be-shalaḥ
• fol. 28v — Yitro
• fol. 57v — Mishpaṭim
• fol. 79v — Terumah
• fol. 94r — Tetsaveh
• fol. 102r — El megilah
• fol. 145v — Tetsaveh le-shanah meʻuberet
• fol. 158r — Ki-tisa
• fol. 180v — Ṿa-yakhel le-shanah meʻuberet
• fol. 192r — Parashat Ṿa-yakhel u-Peḳude le-shanah peshuṭah
• fol. 204r — Peḳude le-shanah meʻuberet