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Or 1490

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Or 1490
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol (Numbers)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
101 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1490

Midrash ha-gadol (Numbers)

Contents

Fragments of Midrash ha-gadol on Numbers.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-101v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול
Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם

Contains a complete midrash on parashah Maṭot and Pinḥas, and large fragments of Mase῾, Balaḳ, Ḥuḳat and Ḳoraḥ.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 101 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

101 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each. Signatures at the end of a quire partly preserved.

Condition

Several lacunae.

Much water-damaged.

Some folios stuck on modern paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Catchwords on every verso.

Visible mastara ruling.

Some marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century.

Binding

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

Spine title: 'Midrash on Numbers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1490.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th 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 (i)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_1490 (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. 356.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL