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Or 2213

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Or 2213
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol (Genesis)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
175 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2213 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2213

Midrash ha-gadol (Genesis)

Contents

Midrash ha-gadol on Genesis, attributed to David Adani.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-175v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול

Many marginal notes.

Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם
ff. 1v-6r
Title: Introductory midrash

A rhymed, poetic prologue.

ff. 6r-41r
Title: Midrash on Be-reshit
ff. 41r-53v
Title: Midrash on Noaḥ
ff. 53v-67r
Title: Midrash on Lekh lekha
ff. 67r-82v
Title: Midrash on Va-yera᾿
ff. 82v-94v
Title: Midrash on Ḥaye Sarah
ff. 94v-106r
Title: Midrash on Toledot
ff. 106r-117v
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yetse
ff. 117v-129r
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yishlaḥ
ff. 129r-139v
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yeshev
ff. 139v-151v
Title: Midrash on Mi-ḳets
ff. 151v-159v
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yigash
ff. 159v-175v
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yeḥi

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 175 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

18 quires of 10 leaves each, apart from nos. 1 (11 leaves), 17 (8 leaves) and 18 (6 leaves).

Signatures in Hebrew letters at the beginning of a quire.

Condition

Folios 173 and 175 are slightly mutilated.

Partly water-damaged in the top part of the folios.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 34

Written lines: 33 34

Many marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century.

Additions:

Folio 1r is a doodle-page.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Genesis. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2213.'

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 13 December 1879: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2213 (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. 347.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL