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Midrash ha-ḥefets by Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe
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357 folios
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1430
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1599
Date Range:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Zechariah ben Solomon, ha-Rofe, 1400-1499
Zechariah ben Solomon, ha-Rofe, 1400-1499
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Or 2351

Midrash ha-ḥefets by Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe

Contents

Summary of Contents: Midrash ha-ḥefets, a philosophical midrash on the Pentateuch by Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe, aka Yaḥya ben Saliman.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-340v
Title: Midrash ha-ḥefets
Title: מדרש החפץ
Author: Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe, active 15th century זכריה בן שלמה, הרופא
Colophon: תעלם אן בשנת א'ת'ש'מ'ז' לשטרותצח פנא עצים ומות ומא בקי מן אלנאס אלא שי קליל פי אכתר אלבלדאן וכו'. f. 105v
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Or 2380 (Margoliouth, no. 364).
ff. 1r-3r
Title: Introduction
ff. 3r-26r
Title: Homily on Be-reshit

Hafṭarah starts on folio 25v.

ff. 26r-34v
Title: Homily on Noaḥ

Hafṭarah starts on folio 34r.

ff. 34v-41v
Title: Homily on Lekh lekha

Hafṭarah starts on folio 41r.

ff. 41v-50r
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yera

Hafṭarah starts on folio 49v.

ff. 50r-55r
Title: Homily on Ḥaye Sarah

Hafṭarah starts on folio 54v.

ff. 55r-61r
Title: Homily on Toledot

Hafṭarah starts on folio 60v.

ff. 61r-67v
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yetse

Hafṭarah starts on folio 67r.

ff. 67v-72r
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yishlaḥ

Hafṭarah starts on folio 71v.

ff. 72r-76r
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yeshev

Hafṭarah starts on folio 76r.

ff. 76r-81r
Title: Homily on Mi-kets

Hafṭarah starts on folio 80v.

ff. 81r-84v
Title: Homily Ṿa-yigash

Hafṭarah starts on folio 84r.

ff. 84v-90v
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yeḥi

Hafṭarah starts on folio 90r.

Author's colophon is copied on folio 90r. Similar statements are found at the end of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

ff. 90v-97r
Title: Homily on Shemot

Hafṭarah starts on folio 96v.

ff. 97r-102r

Hafṭarah starts on folio 102r.

Title: Homily on Ṿa-᾿era
ff. 102r-110r
Title: Homily on Bo

Hafṭarah starts on folio 109v.

ff. 110r-122r

Has Megilat Ester between folio 117r-121r, then follows the Hafṭarah.

Title: Homily on Be-shalaḥ
ff. 122r-132r
Title: Homily on Yitro

Hafṭarah starts on folio 131r.

ff. 132r-141v
Title: Homily on Mishpaṭim

Hafṭarah starts on folio 141r.

ff. 141v-147v
Title: Homily on Terumah

Hafṭarah starts on folio 146v.

ff. 147v-151v
Title: Homily on Tetsaveh

Hafṭarah starts on folio 151r.

ff. 151v-160r
Title: Homily on Ki tisa

Hafṭarah starts on folio 159v.

ff. 160r-163r
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yaḳhel

Hafṭarah starts on folio 163r.

ff. 163r-165v
Title: Homily on Peḳude

Hafṭarah starts on folio 165r.

ff. 165v-174v
Title: Homily on Ṿa-yiḳra

Hafṭarah starts on folio 174r.

ff. 174v-181r
Title: Homily on Tsaṿ

Hafṭarah starts on folio 180v.

ff. 181r-187v
Title: Homily on Shemini

Hafṭarah starts on folio 187r.

ff. 187v-192v
Title: Homily on Tazri῾a

Hafṭarah starts on folio 192v.

ff. 192v-198r
Title: Homily on Metsora῾

Hafṭarah starts on folio 198r.

ff. 198r-204v
Title: Homily on Aḥare mot

Hafṭarah starts on folio 204v.

ff. 204r-211v
Title: Homily on Ḳedoshim

Hafṭarah starts on folio 211v.

ff. 211v-220r
Title: Homily on Emor

Hafṭarah starts on folio 219v.

ff. 220r-223v
Title: Homily on Be-har

Hafṭarah starts on folio 223r.

ff. 223v-228r
Title: Homily on Be-ḥuḳotai

Hafṭarah starts on folio 228r.

ff. 228r-231r
Title: Homily on Be-midbar

Hafṭarah starts on folio 231r.

ff. 231r-238v
Title: Homily on Naso

Hafṭarah starts on folio 238v.

ff. 238v-244r
Title: Homily on Be-ha᾿alotekha

Hafṭarah starts on folio 243v.

ff. 244r-251r
Title: Homily on Shalaḥ lekha

Hafṭarah starts on folio 251r.

ff. 251r-257r
Title: Homily on Ḳoraḥ

Hafṭarah starts on folio 257r.

ff. 257r-262r
Title: Homily on Ḥuḳat

Hafṭarah starts on folio 262r.

ff. 262r-266r
Title: Homily on Balaḳ

Hafṭarah starts on folio 266r.

ff. 266r-271v
Title: Homily on Pinḥas

Hafṭarah starts on folio 271r.

ff. 271v-274r
Title: Homily on Maṭot

Hafṭarah starts on folio 273v.

ff. 274r-277v
Title: Homily on Mas῾e

Hafṭarah starts on folio 276v.

ff. 277v-281v
Title: Homily on Eleh ha-devarim

Hafṭarah starts on folio 281r.

ff. 281v-290v
Title: Homily on Ṿa-etḥanan

Hafṭarah starts on folio 291r.

ff. 291v-296r
Title: Homily on ῾Eḳev

Hafṭarah starts on folio 296r.

ff. 296r-303r
Title: Homily on Re᾿eh

Hafṭarah starts on folio 303r.

ff. 303r-310r
Title: Homily on Shofṭim

Hafṭarah starts on folio 310r.

ff. 310r-317r
Title: Homily on Ki tetse

Hafṭarah starts on folio 317r.

ff. 317r-321r
Title: Homily on Ki tavo

Hafṭarah starts on folio 320v.

ff. 321r-326v
Title: Homily on Netsavim

Hafṭarah starts on folio 326r.

ff. 326v-329v
Title: Homily on Ha᾿azinu

Hafṭarah starts on folio 329r.

ff. 329v-340v
Title: Homily on Zot ha-berakhah

Hafṭarot for special sabbaths and festivals start on folio 333v.

References

[Midrash-Rabah_1985]
ff. 341r-356v
Title: Mishneh Torah
Title: משנה תורה
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון

Only a fragment of the treatise, i.e. Sefer ahavah, has been appended here.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 357 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Damaged.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Gaps after folios 3, 63, 92.

Several leaves inlaid with tracing paper for preservation.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Titles of chapters and beginning of sections highlighted with red ink.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 15 to 16th century.

Additions:

Folios [i recto], 357r, 357v contain a fragment of Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah Midot 2:4-3:1.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Ha-Chefets. Hebrew and Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2351.'

History

Origin: 1430-1599 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 28 May 1881, 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_2351 (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. 363.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Midrash-Rabah_1985] הלוי, יעקב דב, יששכר בער בהרב נפתלי כ״ץ, Yaʿaḳov Dov Haleṿi, and ha-Kohen Issachar Berman ben Naphtali. 'Midrash Rabah : ʿim Ha-Perushim Matnot Kehunah Ha-Shalem / Leha-Rav Yiśakhar Ber Beharav Naftali Kats ; Yeshuʿot Yaʿaḳov Ṿe-Hu Beʾur Nifla Meluḳaṭ Mi-Mefarshe Ha-Midrash ... Nisdar Ṿe-Huva Li-Defus ʿa. y. Yaʿaḳov Dov Haleṿi.'ירושלים: ידהלוי ; Broklyn sic NY, 1985.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL