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Add MS 27292

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032-003368794
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Add MS 27292
Title:
Collection of midrashim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
325 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27292 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1384
End Date:
1384
Date Range:
1384
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ben Tsiyon Gerondi
Efrayim Refa'el ben Mordekhai Gerondi
Menahem ben Refa'el
Yonah Gerondi
Yosef ben Mordekhai
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Add MS 27292

Collection of midrashim

Contents

Summary of Contents: Two series of anonymous midrashic commentaries on the parts of the Pentateuch, which may have been written out by an adaptor, for use at the delivery of public discourses.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-157r
Title: Sefer midrashim
Title: ספר מדרשים
Colophon: נשלם ספר מדרשים הללו שבח לבורא עולם בעזרת רוכב שמים ומעמידם על תילם בששה ימים לחדש אייר של שנת ה'ק'מ'ד' ליצירה לנכבד החכ' כבו' ר' אליעזר אשכנזי י"ל הרחמן יזכהו ללמוד בו וכו': f. 156r

Not all the pericopes are commented on, especially Leviticus has been left out. There are many comments on the occassion of feasts and festivals (see folio 100v, 104v, 146v).

ff. 157r-325v
Title: ערוגת הבושם
Title: ῾Arugat ha-bosem

An ethical midrash, attributed in a later printed edition to Yonah Gerondi.

References

[Gerondi_1980]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 325 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 192 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

325 folios (+3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, folio 1 is paper)

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords on nearly every verso. Irregular.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 25 33

Written lines: 25 33

Uniform layout.

The first part of the manuscript (folios 1-156) written in one column, with mostly 31 line a page. The second part has 2 columns a page, with 25 to 33 lines a column.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios distinguishable.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Many passages marked off. Many marginal notes, some in Italian (see folio 48v, 49r).

Part of folio 273r, and folios 273r-277v left blank. Parts of folio 157r, 258v omitted by the scribe.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (or Greek) square script of the 14th century.

ff. 2r-156v
and
ff. 157r-325v
- written by two different but contemporary hands.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Sepher Midrashim. A.D. 1384. Sepher Arigat Hab-Bosem. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27 292.'

History

Origin: 1384

Provenance and Acquisition

Efrayim Refa'el ben Mordekhai Gerondi: inscribed, folio f. 1r .

Menahem ben Refa'el: inscribed, folio f. 2r .

Yosef ben Mordekhai: inscribed, folio f. 2r .

Ben Tsiyon Gerondi: inscribed with a date of 1782, folios f. 2r, 325r .

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27292 (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. 346.

Bibliography

    [Gerondi_1980] אברהם, גרונדי יונה בן. 'ספר דרשות ופירושי רבנו יונה גירונדי לחמשה חומשי תורה : דרשות ופירושים... לפרשיות התורה והמגלות וד’ פרשיות ומשולבים בהם פירושים רבים לספר משלי... / יוצא לאור זו הפעם הראשונה מכתב-יד... עם מבוא, הערות, מראי מקומות ומפתחות ע"י שמואל ברח"י ירו שלמי[ =קרויזר].'ירושלים: ח’ וגשל, 1980.

Funding of Cataloguing

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