Description of British Library, Or 2353: Midrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2022-12-022022-12-02These images and the content of British Library Or 2353: 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 2353: 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.Imperfect at the beginning. Folios wanting after folio 263.Folio 274r contains a short note, and folio 274v is concerned with a valid contract of marriage.Zekharyah and Yosef ben Benayah ben Se'adyah ben Margah ben Shelomoh: inscribed, folio 273v, both notes crossed out.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 2353http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2353https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsFirst part of Midrash ha-gadol on Leviticus.HebrewMidrash ha-gadol (מדרש הגדול)1rמדרש הגדול1rMidrash ha-gadol
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274 folios; 274 folios Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Marginal notes.Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.
YemenAcquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 1881: inscribed, folio [275v].