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Or 1307

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032-003376485
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Or 1307
Title:
Midrashim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
346 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1307 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1455
Date Range:
1450-1455
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Efraim ha-Darshan ben Gershon ha-Rofe
Efrayim ha-Darshan ben Gershon ha-Rofe
Fischl Hirsch
Mosheh ben Efrayim ha-Peruz
אפרים הדרשן בן גרשון הרופא
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1307

Midrashim

Contents

A book of midrashic commentaries called Tsintsenet ha-man by Efraim ha-Darshan ben Gershon ha-Rofe.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-346v
Title: Tsintsenet ha-man
Title: צנצנת המן
Author: Efraim ha-Darshan ben Gershon ha-Rofe אפרים הדרשן בן גרשון הרופא

Each derashah is preceded by a more or less lenghty reshut in rhyme. The discourses themselves are based on a small number of texts.

Incipit: בשנת ה'ד'ו'ר' חברתי זה החבור. f. 2v
Colophon: זה הספר חיברתי אני אפרים בכ"ר גרשון הרופא [...] וצנצנת המן קראתיהו [...] ובשנת ה'ט'ו'ר' חבריהו וכו'. f. 346r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 346 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Irregular quires of 10 to 14 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Catchwords on every verso, mostly cut away.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

ff. 321v-346v
- written probably by the author (a partial autograph).

Additions:

Mutilated folios 346 and 347 are stuck together at the end of the manuscript.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Ephraim b. Gerson. Midrashim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1307.'

History

Origin: 1450-1455 Ottoman Empire (Macedonia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Efrayim ha-Darshan ben Gershon ha-Rofe: inscribed, folio 346r.

Mosheh ben Efrayim ha-Peruz: inscribed in a note, folio 2r.

1875-04-10

Fischl Hirsch: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 April 1875: inscribed, folio [347v].

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_1307 (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. 379.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL