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Add MS 27169
Title:
Two fragments of Midrash Rabah
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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:
409 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1060
End Date:
1170
Date Range:
1060-1170
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Camillo Jaghel
Eliyah Camerini
Giuseppe Almanzi
Mosheh ben Mordekhai ha-Rofe᾿ de Palazzo
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Add MS 27169

Two fragments of Midrash Rabah

Contents

Two fragments of Midrash Rabah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-409v
Title: Midrash rabah
Title: מדרש רבה
ff. 1v-275r
Title: Midrash Be-reshit rabah

Contains the part of the midrash on pericope 'Va-yeḥi' which treats on the blessings of Jacob.

Many notes added by a later hand, with additions, explanations and corrections.

Filiation: Cf. contents of [BL] Add MS 16406 (Margoliouth, no. 341).
ff. 275v-409v
Title: Midrash Va-yiḳra᾿ rabah

Different chapters are marked but not numbered, with the exception folio 380v.

Several chapters are much shorter than in printed editions.

On folios 387v and 388r several terms are omitted, blanks having been left in their places.

The additions to the first three chapters, published in the Midrash Rabah printed editions, are not contained in this manuscript.

References

[Midrash-Rabah_1985]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of approximately 1060-1170 (late 11th up to mid 12th century).
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 409 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

409 folios (+3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

36 quires: i-ii12; iii14; iv12; v-x10; xi-xii12; xiii-xvii10; xviii-xxxv12; xxxvi9.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Pricking and hard-point ruling is visible.

Flesh-side and hair-side of the folio is discernible.

Has some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of approximately 1060-1170 (late 11th up to mid 12th century).

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Marble edges.

Spine title: 'Midrash Bereshith Rabba and Vai-Yikra Rabba. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27 169.'

History

Origin: 1060-1170 Greece or Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r contains a list of works which had belonged to an early owner, this manuscript being included.

Mosheh ben Mordekhai ha-Rofe᾿ de Palazzo: inscribed with his name, folio 1r.

Eliyah Camerini: inscribed, folio 1r.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 409v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 279: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153).

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

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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. 340.
    [Almanzi_1864] 279

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.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).
    [Almanzi_1864] אלמנצי, יוסף, and Giuseppe Almanzi. 'Yad Yosef : ... Ṿe-Hi Reshimat Sifre Ha-Bibliʾoṭeḳ / ... Asaf Ṿe-Ḳibets ... Yosef Almantsi Melekhet Yedido Shemuʾel Daṿid Lutsaṭo.'Padoue, 1864.

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