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Or 4843

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Or 4843
Title:
Midrash Ester
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
91 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4843 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1596
End Date:
1596
Date Range:
1596
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Seleucid
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CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Morris Heller & Weiss
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4843

Midrash Ester

Contents

Midrash on the Book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-91v
Title: Midrash Ester
Title: מדרש אסתר
Filiation: The same content as in London, BL, Or 2416 (Margoliouth, no. 224), folios 106-137.
Explicit: ר' שמואל אומ' גדול הוא השלום שהוא יותר מכל המתנות הטובות שהבטיח הקב"ה לישראל באחרית הימים דכת' וישב עמי בנוה שלום ... אמן כן יאמר בעל הרחמים ... ירחם עלינו: ברוך הוא וברוך שמו. f. 91r
Colophon: נשלם מדרש מגלה בעזרת האל שבחר בישראל וקראם סגלה: בחמשה בשבא דהוא תרין יומין לירח אדר ראשון שנת אתתקז שנין לשטרות. f. 91r

Occasional marginal notes with explanations of difficult words in the text.

f. 91v diagrams & calculation schemes.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 91 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 117 × 67 mm.
Foliation:

91 folios (+2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 to 8 leaves each.

Catchwords on most of the versos, irregular.

Condition

Defective at the beginning.

Folios missing after folios 6 and 52.

Some folios damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Has many marginal notes.

Erasures in the owner's note.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century.

Additions:

Crossed out English description in English, folio (ii)r.

Calculation schemes on folio 91v.

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather, blind-tooled.

Spine title: 'Midrash on Esther. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4843.'

Boxed.

History

Origin: 1596 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Erased previous owner's name, f. 91v .

Morris Heller & Weiss: bought by the British Museum on 14 November 1894: 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_4843 (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. 344.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL