MS. Huntington 312
Oriental Manuscripts Huntington Collection
Contents
Midrash ha-Beʾur by Saadia al-Dhamari
1. ff. 1r-215v
, Midrash ha-Beʾur מדרש הבאור Written by Saadia al-Dhamari. Copied by Saadia ben David ha-Temani, who called it Tsafnat Paneʿaḥ and claimed authorship.
Language(s): Hebrew
2. ff. 216r-221v
Ḥibur ʿal ṭaʿame ha-Miḳra חבור על טעמי המקרא Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 222
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Hand(s)
Oriental-Yemenite semi-cursive script.
Decoration
Additions: Last leaf (fol. 222r): the end of an Arabic commentary on the prophets by a later hand.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled.
History
Origin: [Palestine or Syria]; [between 1465 and 1485]
Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership note by Avraham ben Aharon Ḥushi on fol. 97v: "אברהם בר אהרן חושי ז"ל"
It belonged to the oriental collection of Robert Huntington (1636/7-1701), and was bought in 1693 together with 645 other MSS for £752 10s.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 294, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 294, 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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Bibliography
Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 294.
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. 294.