Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 124c

Oriental Manuscripts Oppenheim Collection

Contents

Midrash ha-Gadol (Leviticus)

1. ff. 1r-284r
Adani, David ben Amram, active 13th century-14th centuryהעדני, דוד בן עמרם, Midrash ha-Gadol (Leviticus) מדרש הגדול (ויקרא)

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

Language(s): Hebrew
2. ff. 1r-284r
Alts'ahri, Yiḥya ben Seʻadyah, approximately 1505-approximately 1583אלצ’אהרי, זכריה, Sefer Tsedah la-derekh ספר צדה לדרך

Runs in the margins.

Philosophico-kabbalistic commentary on the first two books of the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 284
Dimensions (leaf):
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-square script.

Fols. 1-10, 12, 273r-283r are a much later completion of the missing parts.

History

Origin: [Yemen]; [15th century]

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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