Description of British Library, Or 2213: Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2022-11-302022-11-30These images and the content of British Library Or 2213: Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 2213: Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Folios 173 and 175 are slightly mutilated.Partly water-damaged in the top part of the folios.Folio 1r is a doodle-page.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectOr 2213http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2213https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsMidrash ha-gadol on Genesis, attributed to David Adani.HebrewMidrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)1vIntroductory midrash6rMidrash on Be-reshit41rMidrash on Noaḥ53vMidrash on Lekh lekha67rMidrash on Va-yera᾿82vMidrash on Ḥaye Sarah94vMidrash on Toledot106rMidrash on Ṿa-yetse117vMidrash on Ṿa-yishlaḥ129rMidrash on Ṿa-yeshev139vMidrash on Mi-ḳets151vMidrash on Ṿa-yigash159vMidrash on Ṿa-yeḥi
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175 folios; 175 folios Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 33 34; written lines: 33 34; Many marginal notes and additions.Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century.
YemenAcquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 13 December 1879: inscribed, folio [176v].