non-consecutive; losses from upper exterior, along center crease, holes (rodent damage?); faded, especially flesh side; staining from inactive mold; moisture damage along lower corner of folio 2
Physical Description:
Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v; formed from prior folio) : non-consecutive; losses from upper exterior, along center crease, holes (rodent damage?); faded, especially flesh side; staining from inactive mold; moisture damage along lower corner of folio 2
Note:
Fol. 1 contains Midrash on the end of Ṿa-yeshev to the beginning of Miḳets, Genesis XL 18- XLI 3. Fol. 2 is from Ṿa-yigash ibid. XLVI 28- XLVII 14. Much of the material is unique, but some parallels can be drawn to other midrashic texts, such as Midrash Rabah Bereshit 88 (fol. 2a). The hand may be identical to that of the ancient palimpsest copy of compendium of Midrash Rabbah Genesis, Cambridge TS 12.208 and 189, whose 8 extant fols. (=2 bifolia) were published by M. Sokoloff in Ḳiṭʻe Bereshit rabah min ha-Genizah [Genizah Fragments of Bereshit Rabba], Jerusalem 1982, description and bibliographic details in p. 22 (manuscript 10), a facsimile on pl. 10, the list of... See: Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah palimpsests from the Taylor-Schechter collection : including a fragment of the twenty-second Psalm according to Origen's Hexapla, ed. Charles Taylor, Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1900. Appendix II n. 2 : The Acts (p. 93-95 , pl. XI). Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Amram.
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