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Title:
Four fragments of midrashic commentaries
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
386 folios
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1199
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1100-1199
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Names:
Yitsḥaḳ ben Mosheh de Pisa
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Add MS 16406

Four fragments of midrashic commentaries

Contents

Four fragments of midrashic commentaries.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-136v
Title: Midrash rabah
Title: מדרש רבה

The text differs largely from the printed editions in many parts.

The enumeration of chapters is irregular.

f. 136r a passage written in a geometrical design.

References

[Midrash-Rabah_1985]
[Jellinek_1853] 73-82 of volume 2.
ff. 137r-258v
Title: Sifra

The enumeration of diffirent divisions is not consistent.

Incipit: בעזרת שוכן מעונים אתחיל תורת כוהנים. f. 137r

References

[Sifra_1999]
[Neusner_1988a]
[Neusner_1988b]
ff. 259r-283v
Title: Sifre

The sections are not regularly marked throughout.

Sifre on Numbers, folios

ff. 259r-315v
, on Deuteronomy, folios 316r-386v.

References

[Sifre_1990]
ff. 283v-386v
Title: Peṭirat Aharon ve-Mosheh

Occasional marginal notes, partially cut away.

References

[Jellinek_1853] 91-95, 115-129 of volume 1.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of approximately 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 386 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 360 × 265 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270 × 200 mm.
Foliation:

386 folios (+2 vellum flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

48 quires of 8 leaves each (apart from no. 32 which has 10 leaves).

Condition

Margins slightly damaged at the end.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 24 25

Written lines: 24 25

Catchwords at the end of the quire.

Has some marginal notes, occasionally cut away.

Pricking and hard-point ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of approximately 12th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, brown leather, blind-tooled, with remains of clasps.

Spine title: 'I. Bereshith Rabbah. II. Siphra. III. Siphre. IV. Petirath Aharon u-Mosheh. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Additional 16.406.'

History

Origin: 1100-1199 12th century Greece or Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Yitsḥaḳ ben Mosheh de Pisa (?): inscribed in a deed of sale, with a witness' name Mordekhai ben Shimshon Ḥizḳiyah, dated Friday, 26 Tishri, folio f. 1r .

Purchased by the British Museum from Payne & Foss on 9 January 1847; originally Rezzi collection: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

1847-01-09

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=Add_MS_16406 (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. 341.

Bibliography

    [Midrash-Rabah_1985] הלוי, יעקב דב, יששכר בער בהרב נפתלי כ״ץ, Yaʿaḳov Dov Haleṿi, and ha-Kohen Issachar Berman ben Naphtali. 'Midrash Rabah : ʿim Ha-Perushim Matnot Kehunah Ha-Shalem / Leha-Rav Yiśakhar Ber Beharav Naftali Kats ; Yeshuʿot Yaʿaḳov Ṿe-Hu Beʾur Nifla Meluḳaṭ Mi-Mefarshe Ha-Midrash ... Nisdar Ṿe-Huva Li-Defus ʿa. y. Yaʿaḳov Dov Haleṿi.'ירושלים: ידהלוי ; Broklyn sic NY, 1985.
    [Jellinek_1853] יעללינעק, אהרן, and Adolph Jellinek. 'Bet Ha-Midrash : Bo Niḳhalu Laʿamod ʿal Nafsham Midrashim Ḳeṭanim Yeshanim u-Maʾamarim Shonim Yeḳarim Mi-Peninim ... / Hushavti, Asafti Ṿe-ʿarakhti ʿa. p. Kitve Yad u-Defusim Yeḳarim ... , Ule-Maʿan Yaruts Ha-Ḳore Bam Mavo Śamti Be-Rosham Ani Aharon Yellineḳ.'Leipzig-55, 1853.
    [Sifra_1999] Morris Ginsberg. 'Sifra / with Translation and Commentary by Morris Ginsberg.'Atlanta, Ga: Scholars Press, 1999.
    [Neusner_1988a] Neusner, Jacob. 'Sifra: An Analytical Translation'. Brown Judaic Studies ; Nos. 138-140, 142. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
    [Neusner_1988b] Jacob Neusner. 'Sifra in Perspective : The Documentary Comparison of the Midrashim of Ancient Judaism / Jacob Neusner.'Atlanta, Ga: Scholars Press, 1988.
    [Sifre_1990] יוחאי, המאה ה־2 שמעון בר, דוד בן יעקב פרדו, מכון ״לב שמח״ (ירושלים), active 2nd century Simeon bar Yoḥai, and Mekhon “Lev śameaḥ” (Jerusalem). 'Sifre : Midrash Halakhah Le-Ba-Midbar u-Devarim / Mi-Yesodo Shel Ha-Tana Rabi Simʿon Bar Yoḥai ; Ṿe-Nilṿeh Alaṿ Perush Sifre de-ve Rav / Me-et Daṿid Pardo ; Sudar Ṿe-Hugah Me-Ḥadash Be-Tosefet Tiḳunim, Meḳorot u-Marʾe Meḳomot, ʿim Mafteaḥ Meforaṭ Be-Sof Sefer Devarim, Ba-ʿarikhat Ḥavre Mekhon Lev Śameaḥ.'ירושלים: מכון לב שמח 1990, Yerushalayim, 1990.

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