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Or 9957

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Or 9957
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
175 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9957 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 9957

Midrash ha-gadol

Contents

Midrash ha-gadol (on Numbers from parashah 'Huḳat')

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-175v
Title: מדרש הגדול (במדבר, מפרשת חקת)
Title: Midrash ha-gadol (Ba-midbar, mi-parashat Ḥuḳat)

In the margins are notes, supplements and commentaries (some of which are in Judeo-Arabic), by several different hands.

Originally bound with [BL] Or 12256.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 175 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 159 mm.
Dimensions (written): 183 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

175 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated modern and 1 older flyleaf at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Catchwords on every verso addad by a different, later hand.

Condition

Paper patched, some leaves are on guards.

Silk glauze in several places.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Yemenite

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Midrash Haggadol on Numbers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9957.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Yemen(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1924-04-12

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 11: inscribed with his name (folio 1r); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed (back flyleaf [ii]v).

Record Sources

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9957 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL