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Or 1103

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Or 1103
Title:
Karaite maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
185 folios (ii+185+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef Elisha
Yosef ben David
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1103

Karaite maḥzor

Contents

Karaite festival prayer book for Yom Kipur followed by fragments of collections of elegies.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1v-171r
Title: מחזור מנהג קראי ליום כפור
Title: Maḥzor minhag ḳarai le-Yom Kipur
Incipit: בשם יוי אל עולם

With instructions in Judeoo-Arabic.

Written by at least two hands.

Colophon: ,תם ונשלם תפלת יום הכפורים כעטרת משכיל ומרים וכתב אותה העבד הצעיר מכל בני העיר רחמים רופא יצ"ו בן כג"ק ה"ה זכריה רופא נ"ע בן כג"ק ה"ז ה"נ אלעזר רופא חזן נ"ע f. 136v
ff. 172r-185v
Title: קינות על נפטרים ותוכחות
Title:

Ff. 179-184 are written by another hand; f. 185 is written by a third hand.

Physical Description

Paper codex of approximately 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines,tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 58 and 61).
Extent: 185 folios (ii+185+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 137r, 153r, 171v are blank.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink, ink stains, water damage, worm damage.

Fading ink.

Damp/mould damage at ends.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 25

Written lines: 21 25

Visible ruling with mastara.

Catchwords on every verso.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) square and semi-cursive script of approximately 16th century.

Additions:

Completions of the missing parts in a 19th century hand (folios 179r-185v).

Binding

Black leather binding, blind-tooled with ornamental centrepiece.

Title on spine: 'Service Book for the Yom Kippurim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1103.'

Accompanying Material

Cutting glued onto back flyleaf (ii) containing Steinschneider's description of the manuscript from Hebraeische Bibliographie. In German and Hebrew.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century with 19th-century completitions

Provenance and Acquisition

Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef Elisha and Yosef ben Daṿid: inscribed with a date 5621 (1860/61), Egypt, on f. 1r: מנחת שי מגברת אהבה ביני ובינו לעולם נתונה היה ממני ... יצחק בלאאו"ר יוסף אלישע יר"ו זצ"ל לאהובי ידידי כמה"ר יוסף ה"ה הש' בלאו"ר דוד ... שנת התרכ"א ... היום יום א' כ"ה לה' אני לדודי ודודי לי שנת התרכ"א לפ"ג פה מצרים יע"א

Acquired from Fischl Hirsh (d. 1899): bookseller; acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Fischl Hirsch. 12 Sept. 1872.'; date of accession October 1872.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1103 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 153., vol IV (supplement)

Funding of Cataloguing

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