[Midrash David on Genesis, colophon] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

David ben Abraham Maimuni, 1222 or 1223-1300.

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Bible. Genesis--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Bible. Genesis.

Midrash.

Colophons of manuscripts.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 folio : complete; recto only; micrography; damage along edges; verso is blank

Paper 20.3 X 14.9 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: double triangle columns: 1 lines: 18.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Colophon to Midrash David on Bereshit

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

The last fol. of the Genesis portion of the manuscript; contains only the colophon, 18 lines that form a decorative, double triangle shape. The content of the colophon is mostly about the future redemption. The last sentence, forming the second, smaller, triangle reads: רחמנא דסייען אמן אמן/ נגמר מדרש/בראשית/ תם; preceding bifolium is British Library Or. 5559C, fols. 10-11.

37 folios from this volume (Genesis) are assembled by E Almagor: Kitve-ha-yad shel Midreshe R. Daṿid ha-Nagid / Ella Almagor [ed.]. Yerushalayim : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yisraʾel ba-Miraḥ, 1995, p. 171-174, as well as numerous other folios from the other volumes of this same ms. Most of the remnants from Genesis are found in Paris Alliance Israélite Universelle II A 116.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 113

IMHM, no. F38399

Almagor (1995), p. 174, codex 21

OCLC:

1366218847