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Title

Midrash on the Pentateuch

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 9958
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

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• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Midrash on the Pentateuch

Notes

• Paper is patched; first 6 leaves are on guards.
   
• Water damage.
   
• Silk gauze on folio 1.
   

Extent

202 folios; 202 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Midrash on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9958.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: ; written lines: ; Marginal notes.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• אלדיאעי, דוד בן זכריה
   
• Acquisition: Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 231: inscribed with his name (folios 2r, 113v, 201v, 202r); 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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