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Title:
David ben Abraham Maimuni's homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus
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Extent:
269 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1662
End Date:
1662
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1662
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CE
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Names:
A.C. Reichardt
Maimuni, David ben Abraham, 1222-1300
Maimuni, David ben Abraham, 1222-1300
Yosef ben Ye'udah ben Benyamin Sheḥatah
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Or 67

David ben Abraham Maimuni's homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus

Contents

David ben Abraham Maimuni's homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-269v
Title: Midrash Shemot
Title: מדרש שמות
Author: David ben Abraham Maimuni, 1222 or 1223-1300 דוד בן אברהם בן הרמב"ם

There are no separate expositions of the Hafṭarot, but they are interwoven with the commentaries on given pericope.

Colophon: התחלתי כתיבת זה הספר ביום שני י"ח ימים לחדש טבת שנת ב"כ יברך ישראל וסיימתיו ביום ב' עשרה ימים לחדש שבט של שנת ב"ך בטחתי אל אבושה השם יזכני לכתוב ספרים רבים עד לאין מספר אני הצעיר וזעיר יוסף שחאתה בלא"א כה"ר יאודה שחאתה בן להחכם השלם [...] המצויין כהר"ר בנימן שחאתה הנודע במסלאתי נ"ע ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' ברוך הקורא בו וארור גונבו אמן וכן יהי רצון ונאמר אמן. f. 247r
ff. 1r-13r
Title: Shemot
ff. 13r-30v
Title: Ṿa-era
ff. 30v-47v
Title: Bo
ff. 47v-64v
Title: Be-shalaḥ
ff. 64v-84r
Title: Yitro
ff. 84r-112r
Title: Mishpaṭim
ff. 112r-133r
Title: Terumah
ff. 133r-193r
Title: Tetsaveh

Includes a lenghty midrash on Esther, folios

ff. 142r-193r
.

ff. 193r-222r
Title: Ki-tisa - Parah adumah
ff. 222r-250r
Title: Ṿa-Yakhel - Peḳude

There is a lenghty break after folio 223, covering the greater part of Ṿa-Yakhel and beginning of Peḳude.

ff. 250r-260v
Title: Yitro
ff. 260v-264r
Title: Megilat Mitsrayim

The scroll of the Egyptian Purim, written in a different hand.

ff. 264r-269v
Title: Exposition on the Ten Commandments

Written in a different handwriting.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 269 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

269 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation is preserved for the most part.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Lacunae after folio 83, 223, 251.

Stained.

Ink occasionaly blurred.

Slightly worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Catchwords on every verso.

Visible hard-point ruling, verso by verso.

Original Hebrew folation is preserved, modestly decorated by penand ink design.

Running titles, mostly not preserved.

Between pages 64v to 72v the Hebrew text is given in red ink.

Titles of chapters are given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Three Sefardi/Oriental square scripts of 17th century. Yosef ben Ye'udah ben Benyamin Sheḥatah: inscribed, folio 247r.

ff. 1r-260v
,
ff. 260v-264r
and
ff. 264r-269v
- written by different hands.

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled.

Spine title: 'David ben Abraham. Comm. on Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 67.'

History

Origin: 1662 Egypt?

Provenance and Acquisition

A. C. Reichardt: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 June 1867: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_67 (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. 371.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL