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Or 2352

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Or 2352
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol by David ben Amram Adani (Exodus)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
151 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2352 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1475
End Date:
1475
Date Range:
1475
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Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Shekhar ibn Al-Sari
Ya῾akov ben Se῾id ibn Daud
Yehosaf ben Se῾adia ben Avraham ben Mosheh
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Or 2352

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

Contents

Midrash ha-gadol on Exodus, attributed to David ben Amroam Adani.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-151v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול

Has many marginal notes.

Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם
Colophon: כמל הדא אלגז אלתאני מן מדרש הגדול יום אלתלאתא עסרין ותמני יומין בירח אב שנת אלפ[א] ושבע מאה ותמנן ושית [ ] במאתא אלכרבה תחרוב וירוש[לם?] תשתכלל סימן טוב על מריה מעודד [בי?]ר' חטר הידוע אבן ... והכותב אברהם בן שלמה בן משה הידוע אלאכל?[ו?]פי לחזות בנועם יוי ול[בק?]ר אכי"ר: f. 147v
ff. 1v-16r
Title: Midrash on Shemot
ff. 16r-24v
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-era
ff. 24v-39v
Title: Midrash on Bo᾿
ff. 39v-59v
Title: Midrash on Be-shalakh
ff. 59v-79v
Title: Midrash on Yitro
ff. 79v-101v
Title: Midrash on Mishpatim
ff. 101v-109v
Title: Midrash on Terumah
ff. 109v-116r
Title: Midrash on Tetsaṿeh
ff. 116r-132r
Title: Midrash on Ki tisa᾿
ff. 132r-140r
Title: Midrash on Ṿa-yakhel
ff. 140r-147v
Title: Midrash on Peḳude
ff. 148r-151v
Title: Midrash on Terumah and Tetsaṿeh

Appended fargments of another manuscript of the same midrash, written in another Yemenite hand of the 15th century.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 151 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 258 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each. Modern restoration (leaves stuck on paper).

Signatures in Hebrew letters and catchwords at the beginning of a quire.

Condition

Some folios damaged, restored on paper.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 38

Written lines: 38

Has some marginal notes and additions.

Mem and shin are truncated in the lines.

Beginnings of new chapters are written in larger characters.

Folio 15v should be read after 16r.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 15th century.

f. 1v due to a recent hand.

ff. 148r-151v
due to a Yemenite contemporary hand.

Additions:

On folio 79r are four short midrashic passages on Deuteronomy.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Exodus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2352.'

History

Origin: 1475 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

A note of sale, dated 2028 (1717), between Ya῾akov ben Se῾id ibn Daud and Yehosaf ben Se῾adia ben Avraham ben Mosheh: folio 1r.

Shekhar ibn Al-Sari: inscribed 1r, 78v.

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_2352 (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. 349.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL