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Or 2379

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032-003376841
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Or 2379
Title:
Midrash ha-gadol on Numbers
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
112 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2379 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1607
End Date:
1607
Date Range:
1607
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Adani, David ben Amram, 1200-1399
Maimon ben Mosheh Al-Musairi
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
[...] ben Yaḥya Sa'id Al-Garibi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2379

Midrash ha-gadol on Numbers

Contents

Midrash ha-gadol on Numbers.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-112v
Title: Midrash ha-gadol
Title: מדרש הגדול
Author: Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th century העדני, דוד בן עמרם
Colophon: נשלם ב חדש אדר דהוא עשרין ותלתה יומין שנת אתתקיח שנין לשטרי במאתה אלמצמאר דעל עינא דמיא אלכרוג מותבה יחרוב ויצדי וירושלם תתבני אמן: ספרא חלשא קלא ומסכינא מימון [ב"ר מ]שה אלמוסאירי[?]: f. 112v

f. 112v Colophon enclosed within an oblong ornamental design.

Physical Description

Paper codex of 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 112 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires nos. 19-30 completely preserved, of 10 leaves each; plus parts of quire no. 18 and 31 at the beginning and at the end, respectively.

Signed with Hebrew letters at the end and at the beginning of a quire. Signatures not completely preserved.

Condition

Much stained.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Catchwords on every verso, not fully preserved.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of 17th century. Maimon ben Mosheh Al-Musairi and [...] ben Yaḥya Sa'id Al-Garibi: inscribed, folio 112v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Midrash Hag-Gadol. Numbers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2379.'

History

Origin: 1607 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed,back flyleaf (i)v.

1881-07-23

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_2379 (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. 355.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL