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Or 2353

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Or 2353
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol by David ben Amram Adani
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
274 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1460
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1460-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Yosef ben Benayah ben Se'adyah ben Margah ben Shelomoh
Zekharyah
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Or 2353

Midrash ha-gadol by David ben Amram Adani

Contents

First part of Midrash ha-gadol on Leviticus.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-274v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול
Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 274 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 267 × 197 mm.
Foliation:

274 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning. Folios wanting after folio 263.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

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.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Hag-Gadol. Leviticus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2353.'

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Yemen

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 1881: inscribed, folio [275v].

1881-07-08

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2353 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 353.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL