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MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 124a

Oriental Manuscripts Oppenheim Collection

Contents

Midrash ha-Gadol (Genesis)

ff. 1r-155r
Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th centuryהעדני, דוד בן עמרם, Midrash ha-Gadol (Genesis) מדרש הגדול (בראשית)

Part of a group of four MSS containing Midrash ha-Gadol; see also MS. Opp. Add. 4° 124b, MS. Opp. Add. 4° 124c, MS. Opp. Add. 4° 124d

Colophon of the scribe on fol. 154r relates only to fols. 135r-154r. Dated 7 Kislev 1909 SA (1597 CE)

Colophon: Colophon on fol. 154r: "נשלם זה המדרש ... בתרין בשבא דהוא שבעה יומין בירח כסלו שנת א’תתק"ט במאתא תנעם"
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 155
Dimensions (leaf):
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive scripts, different hands.

Scribe of colophon wrote fols. 135-154. Fols. 2-130 written by a different hand, fols. 131-134 again by a different hand. Fol. 1r was completed by a later hand.

History

Origin: [Yemen]; 1597

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, (No. 2338, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I No. 2338, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 21030

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 2338.
    Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 2338.

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