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Or 2216

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032-003376505
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Or 2216
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol by David ben Amram Adani (Deuteronomy)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
147 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2216 (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:
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Not Public Record(s)
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 2216

Midrash ha-gadol by David ben Amram Adani (Deuteronomy)

Contents

Midrash ha-gadol on Deuteronomy.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-147v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול
Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם
Incipit: שם הבאר עשק מפני מה מפני כי התעשקו עמו. f. 1v
Explicit: מש' מידבר עמו פנ[ים בפנים]. f. 147v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 147 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 302 × 202 mm.
Dimensions (written): 266 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Slightly stained.

Some more damaged folios restored on modern paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35 41

Written lines: 35 41

Uniform layout.

Initial words and chapter titles present.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Deuteronomy. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2216.'

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.

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_2216 (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. 359.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL