Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of midrashic pieces

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9953
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9953
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Collection of midrashic pieces

Notes

• Paper patched in many places.
   
• Silk gauze in some places.
   
• Stains.
   

Extent

22 folios; 22 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Oriental 9953. Brit. Mus. Midrashic Fragments. Hebrew.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: ; written lines: ; Layout is not uniform, different hands. Visible ruling with mastara.

Script

Persian semi-cursive script.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1084: inscribed with his name (folio 22v); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [ii]v).
   

Related resources

• Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996).

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — יצירת הולד Yetsirat ha-ṿalad
• fol. 8v — דין הקבר Din ha-ḳever
• fol. 12v — מדרש שקלים Midrash Sheḳalim מדרש מגלה : מדרש על מגלת אסתר Midrash megilah : midrash ʻal megilat Ester
• fol. 19r — סדר תנאים אמוראים וסבוראים Seder Tanaʼim Amoraʼim ṿe-Savoraʼim