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MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 124b

Oriental Manuscripts Oppenheim Collection

Contents

Midrash ha-Gadol (Exodus)

ff. 1r-215r
Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th centuryהעדני, דוד בן עמרם, Midrash ha-Gadol (Exodus) מדרש הגדול (שמות)

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

Place name in colophon is perhaps Al Jawf.

Colophon: Colophon of the scribe Yesha ben Aba Mari Shalom ben Saadiah, dated 19 Tevet 1907 SA (1595 CE): "נשלם בחמשא בשבא דהוא תשעת עשר יומין בירח טבת שנת אתתק"ז שנין לשטרי במאתא אלג’יל ... הכותב ישע בירב אבא מרי שלום בן סעדיה ... " (fol. 215v)
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 215
Dimensions (leaf):
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-square script.

History

Origin: [Yemen]; 1595

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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