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Title

Midrash Devarim (מדרש דברים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 70
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_70
• 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 Deuteronomy.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning.
   
• Folios missing after folio 304.
   
• Slightly water-damaged.
   
• Last leaves slightly worm-eaten.
   
• The last six leaves belonged to a different manuscript. Contain midrashic expositions on parashah Ṿa-yelekh and Ha᾿azinu.
   
• Mikha᾿el ben Mosheh: inscribed, folio 2r.
   
• Raḥamim ben Shemu᾿el Malkiowner: inscribed, folio 369r.
   

Extent

372 folios; 372 folios

Foliation

Hebrew foliation preserved almost throughout.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled. Spine title: 'David ben Abraham. Comm. on Deuteronomy. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 70.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Catchwords (vertical, inclined) on every verso. Initial words given in larger characters. Running title on every recto.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive scripts of 17th century.The main scribe inscribed in the colophon as Yosef Motsri, folio 368v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: A. C. Reichardt: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 June 1867: inscribed, folio [373v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Devarim
• fol. 19v — Midrash Tishʿah be-av
• fol. 73v — Midrash ḳinot hashbaʿah
• fol. 99r — Ekhah
• fol. 108v — Ani ha-gever
• fol. 119v — Ekhah yoʿam zahav
• fol. 130v — Zekhor Adonai mah hayah lanu
• fol. 136v — Ṿa-etḥanan
• fol. 155r — Eḳev
• fol. 173v — Re᾿eh
• fol. 195r — Shofeṭim
• fol. 214v — Ki tetse
• fol. 232v — Ki tavo
• fol. 246r — Netsavim
• fol. 256r — Ṿa-yelekh
• fol. 269v — Le-rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 296r — Ha᾿azinu
• fol. 305r — Yom Ḳipur
• fol. 320v — Derash Yom Ḳipur
• fol. 330v — Le-ḥag ha-Sukot
• fol. 339v — Le-ḥag ha-Sukot
• fol. 347v — Le-shemini atseret
• fol. 354v — Zot ha-berakhah
• fol. 364v — Peṭirat Mosheh rabenu