Description of British Library, Or 2382: Midrash ha-ḥefets (מדרש החפץ)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish LibraryThese images and the content of British Library Or 2382: Midrash ha-ḥefets (מדרש החפץ) 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 2382: Midrash ha-ḥefets (מדרש החפץ). 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 and at the end.Several leaves more or less damaged.A record of birth of Se'adyah ben Mosheh: inscribed, folio 157r.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 2382http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2382https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsMidrash ha-ḥefets, a philosophical midrash on the Pentateuch by Zechariah ben Solomon ha-Rofe, aka Yaḥya ben Saliman.Hebrew; ArabicMidrash ha-ḥefets (מדרש החפץ)
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304 folios; 304 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 26 34; written lines: 26 34; Some catchwords preserved. Beginnings of chapters and sections highlighted. Frequently elongated last letter in a line to fill the space.Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century. Mosheh ben Yosef ben Mosheh ben Se'adyah: inscribed, folio 157r, writing for Se'id ben Maḥapots, inscribed on the same folio.
YemenAcquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, folio [305v].