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Or 2785

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Or 2785
Title:
Daṿid Adani's Midrash Shemot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Extent:
103 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2785 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1482
End Date:
1482
Date Range:
1482
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Adani, Saadiah ben Daṿid, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122798066,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51500431
Adani, Saadiah ben Daṿid, fl 15th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122798066,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51500431
Fischl Hirsch
Sa῾adiah ben Daṿid Adani
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2785

Daṿid Adani's Midrash Shemot

Contents

The second part of Se῾adyah ben Daṿid Adani's homiletico-agadic commentary on Exodus.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-103v
Title: Midrash Shemot
Title: מדרש שמות
Author: Adani, Saʿadiah ben Daṿid, active 15th century עדני, סעיד אבן דוד

Each exposition begins with a doxology and ends with a prayer.

Probably an autograph copy of Saʿadyah ben Daṿid Adani.

Filiation: Cf. similar handwriting in [BL] Add MS 27294, 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. 498..
Colophon: תם אלגזו אלתאני מן כתאב נגאה אלגארקין פי הדה אלפרקין: תאליף אקל אלתלאמיד סעיד אבן דאוד נ"ע אלעדני ת'מ'כ' ת'כ'ה': ידאלך פי יום אלאחד אלדי הו יום י"ט מן שהר אב ייהפך לששון ולשמחה שנת ה'ר'מ'ב' ליצירה והיא שנת א'ת'ש'צ'ג' לשטרות לכלות הפשע ולקרב הישע: א'כ'ת' ר'מ'ש' f. 102v
ff. 1r-8v
Title: Shemot
ff. 8v-16v
Title: Ṿa-era
ff. 16v-24r
Title: Bo
ff. 24r-35r
Title: Be-shalaḥ
ff. 35r-43r
Title: Yitro
ff. 43r-54r
Title: Mishpaṭim
ff. 54r-65r
Title: Terumah
ff. 65r-77v
Title: Tetsaveh
ff. 77v-88r
Title: Ki-tisa
ff. 88r-95r
Title: Ṿa-yakhel
ff. 95r-102v
Title: Peḳude

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 103 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

103 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

11 quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Signed with Hebrew letters and Arabic numerals at the beginning.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

Slightly worm-eaten.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Titles written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of 15th century. Sa῾adiah ben Daṿid Adani: probably an autograph of the work; inscribed on folio 102v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Said Al-Adani. On Exodus. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2785.'

History

Origin: 1482 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Library from him on 20 June 1844: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_2785 (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. 370.

Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

BL