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Or 9954

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Or 9954
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol (Be-reshit) 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:
163 folios (i+163+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1616
End Date:
1616
Date Range:
1616
Calendar:
Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Zachariah ben Nathan ben Judah
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Or 9954

Midrash ha-gadol (Be-reshit) by David ben Amram Adani

Contents

Midrash on Genesis.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-163r
Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם
Title: מדרש הגדול (בראשית)
Title: Midrash ha-gadol (Be-reshit)

Filiation: London, BL, [BL] Or 2213, [BL] Or 2378
Colophon: "נשלם בתלתא בשבא דהוא עסרין בירח תמוז שנת א’תתקכ"ז שנין לשטרי במאתא בית עגל יחרוב ויצ[...] וירושלים תתבני ותשתכלל יהא סימן טוב על דכתב יתיה ליה לנפשיה אלהים יזכיהו להגות בו ... והכותב קל הקלים קטן הסופרים ועפר רגלי החכמ' ספרא חלשא ומספינא זכריא בן נתן בן יהודה אלאכלופי" f. 163r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: anchor in a circle with a three-petal flower on top.
Extent: 163 folios (i+163+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 204 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pen, and from fol. 113, corrected in pencil.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves.

Signatures on the top right corner at the end of the quires and the bottom left corner at the beginning of the quires.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, slight water damage.

Fol. 1 is damaged, on a guard leaf.

Layout

Columns:2

Some sections headings are in larger, square characters.

A few marginal notes by various hands.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Scribe: Zachariah ben Nathan ben Judah.

Decoration

Additions:

Fol. 163v: fragment from a calendar in Hebrew.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Midrash Haggadol on Genesis. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9954.'

History

Origin: 1616

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions on fol. 1r: אשתרא מוסא ב' סעיד אלחאזי הדא מדרס הגדול אלדי הו ספר בראשית מן סאלם ב' סלימאן אלאקף ... משה ב' זכריא ישל, משה ב' שלום, and on fol. 163v: ... לכתאב למוסי אבן סעיד אלחאזי בקבוג(?)

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1a: inscribed with his name on fol. 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v; date of accession 4 July 1927: inscribed on fol. 163v.

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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