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Or 1422

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Or 1422
Title:
A collection of midrashim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
206 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1422 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Fischl Hirsch
Se'adyah ben Shelomoh
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1422

A collection of midrashim

Contents

Summary of Contents: Midrashim in Hebrew and Arabic on Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, followed by a short midrashic commentary on the Hafṭarot.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-206v
Title: Midrash
Title: מדרש

Frequently overlapping with Midrash ha-ḥefets, but formally based on the model of Midrash ha-gadol.

ff. 1v-61r
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yiḳra
Colophon: השלמתי ספר התורה כהנים שתחלתו ספר ויקרא בעזרת רם ונשא שוכן שמו שפרה" אשאלה ממנו יגלה לי טמונות התורה" אני סעדיה בן שלמה אשר דעתי מן החכמה קצרה" אשאלה ממנו יסייענו על השאר ויהיה לי לעזרה". f. 61r
ff. 61v-104v
Title: Midrash on Be-midbar
ff. 104v-190v
Title: Midrash on Devarim
ff. 190v-206v
Title: Midrash on Hafṭarot

Physical Description

Paper codex of 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 206 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 215 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

19 quires of 10 leaves each, 1 quire (no. 20) of 8 leaves, and 1 quire (no. 21) of 7 leaves - defective, plus a detached leaf at the end.

Signed with Hebrew letters at the beginning and at the end of quires.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

Slightly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34

Catchwords on every verso.

Titles written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1422.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Se'adyah ben Shelomoh: probably a compiler of this manuscript: inscribed, folio 61r. The Judeo-Arabic sentence at the end of Deuteronomy, folio 189v, implies that the author had employed a copyist.

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Library from him on 12 January 1877: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

1877-01-12

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_1422 (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. 369.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL