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Or 2355

Record Id:
032-003376826
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2355
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:
246 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2355 (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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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2355

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

Contents

Midrash ha-gadol on Deuteronomy.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-246v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול
Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 246 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 278 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

246 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

24 full quires of 10 leaves each plus a part of one incomplete quire at the end.

Quires signed on the last and the first page.

Condition

Slightly imperfect at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout, with visible ruling with a hard-point.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Haggadol. Deuteronomy. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2355.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r contains an Arabic-Hebrew record relating to a transaction concerning this manuscript, signed by three witnesses, Zekharya ben Se'adya, Zekharya ben Shelomoh and Shelomoh ben Se'adya.

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_2355 (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. 358.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL