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Title

Midrash Ṿa-yiḳra (מדרש ויקרא)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 69
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_69
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew

Origin

Summary

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

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• First and last leaf damaged.
   

Extent

96 folios; 96 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'David ben Abraham. Comm. on Leviticus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 69.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 29; Catchwords on every page. Chapter titles given in larger square letters. Regular mastara ruling. Running titles on every page.

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 [97v].
   

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-yiḳra
• fol. 6r — Tsav
• fol. 12v — Midrash Pesaḥ yom rishon
• fol. 18v — Yom sheni ve-hu᾿ ḥol
• fol. 21v — Yom sheviʿi shel Pesaḥ
• fol. 26r — Midrash Pesaḥ le-R. Yitsḥaḳ ha-Nagid
• fol. 32r — Ṿa-yehi be-yom shemini
• fol. 41r — Tazriʿa u-Metsorah
• fol. 51r — Tazriʿa
• fol. 53v — Zot tihyeh va-Pesaḥ
• fol. 55v — Aḥare mot
• fol. 64r — Ḳedoshim
• fol. 72r — Emor
• fol. 82r — Be-har
• fol. 88v — Be-ḥuḳotai