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Or 1481

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Or 1481
Title:
Midrash
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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:
88 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
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Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
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CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1481

Midrash

Contents

A short midrash on the Pentateuch, in Hebrew and Arabic.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic

ff. 1r-88v
Title: Midrash
Title: מדרש

A midrash in a form of question and answer, frequently overlapping with Midrash ha-hefets, but also containing many comments not found there.

Filiation: This manuscript shares some comments with [BL] Or 2351 (Margoliouth, no. 363).
ff. 1r-19r
Title: Midrash on Genesis
ff. 19r-39r
Title: Midrash on Exodus
ff. 39r-59r
Title: Midrash on Leviticus
ff. 59r-71r
Title: Midrash on Numbers
ff. 71r-88v
Title: Midrash on Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 88 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Modern restoration of quires.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Many pages are lightly damaged and/or worm-eaten.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Some catchwords preserved.

Extensive marginal notes (upper, lower, inner and outer margins filled).

Occasional notes between the lines.

Chapter and section titles written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of 16th century.

f. 88v due to a later, different hand.

Additions:

Folio 88v contains rules relating to shehitah in the form of question and answer, probably of 17th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Black buckram, blind-tooled.

Spine title: 'Midrash on Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1481.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 24 November 1877: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

1877-11-24

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_1481 (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. 368.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL