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Or 2215

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Or 2215
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol (Leviticus)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
187 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2215 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1601
End Date:
1601
Date Range:
1601
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Daṿid ben Sa῾id
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
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Or 2215

Midrash ha-gadol (Leviticus)

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-187v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול

Many marginal notes.

Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם
Colophon: נשלם בחמשה בשבא דהוא שבעת עסר יומין בירח אדר שני של שנת א'ת'ת'ק'י'ב' שנין לשטרו' והכותב קל הקלים זכריה בן אברהם בן זכריה[...] אלמסורי' והקורא בו ידון אותי לכף זכות: f. 185v
ff. 3r-31r
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yiḳra
ff. 31r-48v
Title: Midrash on Tsaṿ
ff. 48v-69v
Title: Midrash on Shemini
ff. 69v-87r
Title: Midrash on Tazri῾a
ff. 87r-108v
Title: Midrash on Metsora῾
ff. 108v-127r
Title: Midrash on Aḥare mot
ff. 127r-138v
Title: Midrash on Ḳedoshim

A leaf is missing after folio 130.

ff. 138v-162v
Title: Midrash on Emor
ff. 162v-173r
Title: Midrash on Be-har
ff. 173r-185v
Title: Midrash on Be-ḥuḳotai

Physical Description

Paper codex of early 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 187 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

One leaf missing after folio 130 and 168 respectively.

Folio 3 is a recent restoration.

Folios 1-2 and 186-187 are vellum.

Several pages water-damaged.

First few leaves damaged, preserved on paper.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34

Some marginal notes and additions.

Hard-point ruling visible.

Catchwords on every verso, partly preserved.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of early 17th century.

ff. 1r-2v
and
ff. 186r-187v
due to a different hand, written on vellum.

Additions:

Folios 1r-2v, 186r-187v and contain Deuteronomy, chapters 13:7-18, 15:13-16:15, 30:20-31:10: Hebrew text with the sublinear punctuation, Targum with the simple superlinear puntuation, and Sa'adia Gaon's Arabic version in Hebrew characters. Has masorah magna and parva.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Leviticus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2215.'

History

Origin: 1601 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Daṿid ben Sa῾id: stamped, folio 109v.

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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2215 (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. 352.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL