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Or 2354

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Or 2354
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol by David ben Amram Adani (Numbers)
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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:
167 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1488
End Date:
1488
Date Range:
1488
Calendar:
Seleucid
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CE
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Musa ibn Yaḥya Al-Sari
Se'adyah
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Or 2354

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

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-167v
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: נשלםיום חמישי בשבא דהוא חמשה יומין לירח טבת של שנת א'ת'ש'צ'ט' שנין לשטרותבמאתא גרף אלערוס יחרוב ויצדי וירושלם תתבני ותשתכלל'. f. 163v
ff. 2v-10r
Title: Midrash on Be-midbar

f. 2r Full-page geometrical design.

f. 164r Full border, in pen and ink.

Numerous pen and ink ornamental designs. f. 52r, 69v

ff. 10r-31v
Title: Midrash on Naso᾿
ff. 31v-52r
Title: Midrash on Be-ha῾alotekha
ff. 52r-69v
Title: Midrash on Shelaḥ lekha
ff. 69v-82v
Title: Midrash on Ḳoraḥ
ff. 82v-103v
Title: Midrash on Ḥuḳat
ff. 103v-116v
Title: Midrash on Balaḳ
ff. 116v-138r
Title: Midrash on Pinḥas
ff. 138r-148v
Title: Midrash on Maṭot
ff. 148v-163v
Title: Midrash on Masʿe

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 167 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

18 quires: 1-11 of 10 leaves each, and 12-18 of 8 leaves each.

Signed with Hebrew letters at the and and beginning of quires; partially preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Marginal notes and additions.

Hard-point ruling visible.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Some poetical pieces appended on the end-flyleaves, on folio 1v and 164r.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

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

History

Origin: 1488 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Se'adyah: inscribed, folio 164r, 163v.

Musa ibn Yaḥya Al-Sari: inscribed, folio 2r, 163v.

1879-12-13

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an 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_2354 (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. 354.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL