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Or 1104

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Or 1104
Title:
Karaite maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
266 folios (ii+266+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1525
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1525
Date Range:
1525
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CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Mikhael Yafet
Ya῾aḳov ben Berakhah Ḳaṭan ben Eliyahu Ḳaṭan Melamed
Yehudah ben Menaḥem
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Or 1104

Karaite maḥzor

Contents

A Karaite festival prayer book for Sukot.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-266v
Title: Maḥzor minhag Ḳara᾿im le-Sukot
Title: מחזור מנהג קראים לסוכות

Incomplete, pages are missing after folio 129.

Colophon: נשלם תפלת הסכות מראש ועד סוף עם סדריה ופתחיה, מערב עד בקר עם תקניה ותנאיה, בעזרת יסד ארץ על מכוניה - וכתבתיו אני אברהם חזן בכ"ר יהודה רבנו נ"ע לר’ אליהו י"ל בכ"ר משה יצ"ו והשלמתו היתה ביום רביעי יב לחדש תמוז שנת פ’ר’ה’ אדומה או פ’ר’ה’ ורבה ליצירה f. 266v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines,watermark: scales in a cicle (?) (e.g. ff. 2, 8).
Extent: 266 folios (ii+266+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 138 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 95 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, some incomplete.

Catchword on most versos.

Condition

Damp entry at head and foot with tidemarks throughout.

Slight mould spotting.

Small infills to first two leaves.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 18

Written lines: 17 18

Uniform layout.

Visible ruling.

Ff. 253v-254v: extensive marginal notes.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 16th century, punctuated.

ff. 130r-130v
supplied in a different (later) handwriting.

Additions:

Binding

Black leather binding. BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Servicebook for Sukkoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1104.'

Accompanying Material

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

History

Origin: 1525

Provenance and Acquisition

Mikhael Yafet: inscribed on f. 1v: מיכאל יפת.

Ya῾aḳov ben Berakhah Ḳaṭan ben Eliyahu Ḳaṭan Melamed: inscribed on f. 2r: יעקב בכר ברכה קטן בכ"ר אליהו קטן המלמד.

Yehudah ben Menaḥem: inscribedon ff. 2v, 37v: זה הספר שלי יהודה בכ"ר מנחם רביצי.

Erased calligraphic signature on f. 2v.

Acquired from Fischl Hirsh (d. 1899): bookseller; acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Fischl Hirsch. 12 Septr. 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_1104 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Steinschneider, Moritz, Hebraeische Bibliographie. Blätter für neuere und ältere Literatur des Judenthums (Berlin: Julius Benzian, 1871), v. 11, p. 14.
    Margoliouth, G.Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 50.
    Margoliouth, G.Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1899-1935, 1977, 4 vols), vol. IV, p. 153.
    Karaite Judaism: A Guide to Its History and Literary Sources, ed. Meira Pollack (Leiden: Brill, 2003), p. 900.

Funding of Cataloguing

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