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Or 1426

Record Id:
032-003313977
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Or 1426
Title:
Fragments of a maḥzor for Yom Kipur and a Karaite daily prayer book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
180 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1426 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Fischl Hirsch
Ya῾aḳov Eshpeyer (?) of Prague
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1426

Fragments of a maḥzor for Yom Kipur and a Karaite daily prayer book

Contents

A festival prayer book for Yom Kipur and a Karaite daily prayer book (fragments).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-141v
Title: Maḥzor minhag Ḳarpentras le-Yamim Nora᾿im
Title: מחזור מנהג קרפנטרס לימים נוראים

A festival prayer book, according to the rite of Provence (Carpentras). Incomplete at the end.

ff. 142r-180v
Title: Sidur minhag Ḳara᾿im
Title: סדור מנהג קראים

Incomplete.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 180 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

180 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, some incomplete.

Condition

Usage and damp stains.

Corroding ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 31

Written lines: 21 31

Non-uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso, only in the latter part (folios 142r-180v).

Initial words in square characters.

Partially punctuated (folios 1r-141v).

Some marginal additions.

Some leaves oversized and folded.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Provencal) semi-cursive script of the 17th century, punctuated, and Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of 16th to 18th century.

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

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Selichoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1426.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; France, S. (Provence, Carpentras and others)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov Eshpeyer (?) of Prague: inscribed, folio 1r.

1877-01-12

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1877: inscribed (folio [182v]).

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_1426 (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

BL