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Or 9972

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Or 9972
Title:
Midrash Daṿid by David ben Abraham Maimuni
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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:
83 folios (ix+83+ix)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Maimuni, David ben Abraham, 1222-1300
Maimuni, David ben Abraham, 1222-1300
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Or 9972

Midrash Daṿid by David ben Abraham Maimuni

Contents

Midrash Daṿid by David ben Abraham Maimuni, a biblical commentary in Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-83v
Author: דוד בן אברהם בן הרמב"ם David ben Abraham Maimuni, 1222 or 1223-1300
Title: מדרש דוד (ויקרא פרשת קדושים-אמצע בחוקותי)
Title: Midrash Daṿid (Ṿa-yiḳra parashat Ḳedoshim-emtsaʻ Be-ḥuḳotai)

Divided into sections according to the parashiyot.

According to E. Almagor this copy is from the Damascus version (see bibliography).

Incomplete at the end.

Filiation: Other parts of the same work written by the same hand can be found in BL Or 9971 and MS Moscow, RSL Guenzburg 1031.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: an anchor in a circle with a six-pointed star on top; scales in a circle.
Extent: 83 folios (ix+83+ix)
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 147 mm.
Dimensions (written): 157 × 98 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in the outer margin.

Collation

7 quires of mostly 10-12 leaves.

Catchwords on some of the verso sides.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink, water damage.

Some leaves had to be reinforced.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout. Section headings are often written in larger, square characters.

The name of the parashiyot are written in the margin in the upper left corner (added by a later hand?).

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Brown cloth binding.

Spine: 'David Nagid. Homilies from Perush. Hebrew. 2. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9972. M.G.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 1r: 'No. 39', probably an old catalogue number added by a previous owner.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 126; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (ix)v; date of accession 20 September 1927: inscribed on fol. 83v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9972 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Almagor, E. Kitve ha-Yad shel Midrashe Rabi David ha-Nagid, Jerusalem, 1995, copy 17, pp. 135-139.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL