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Or 1479

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Or 1479
Title:
Yemenite sidur
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
158 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1674
End Date:
1674
Date Range:
1674
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 1479

Yemenite sidur

Contents

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-158v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
ff. 1r-22v
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 22v-46r
Title: Services for the Sabbath

Seder ḳabalat shabat, folio 22v; Tefilat lele shabat, folio 26r; Tefilot le-shabat, Masekhet Avot, Tefilat motse shabat, folio 27v.

Filiation: Cf. Or 1480.
ff. 46r-48v
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh
ff. 48v-59r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ, Shavu῾ot, Ta῾aniyot, Tish῾ah be-av
ff. 59r-66r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
Filiation: Cf. Or 2227 fol. 103v sqq.; Or 2389, folio 49r sqq.
ff. 66r-70v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.
ff. 70v-73r
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.
ff. 73r-76v
Title: Services for Ḥanukah

In the Megilat bene Ḥashmona᾿i there is a break after folio 75 (one leaf is missing).

ff. 76v-77v
Title: Services for Purim
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.
ff. 77v-79v
Title: Tseloah almiyat
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2227, part X.
ff. 79v-93r
Title: Seder seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2418, part XIV, and Or 1480, part XIV.
ff. 93r-103v
Title: Keter malkhut
Title: כתר מלכות
Author: Ibn Gabirol, Solomon אבן גבירול, שלמה בן יהודה
ff. 103v-111v
Title: Seder ῾avodah
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, part XVI.
ff. 111v-129r
Title: Berakhot
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, part XVII.
ff. 129r-142r
Title: ῾Ibur ha-shanim

Of the year in the cycle 287 and 288 a full tabulated statement is given, the manuscript having been written at the beginning of the first-named cycle. The calendar continues on folio 134v with the cycle 290, ending on folio 141v.

Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, XVIII; Or 2390, fol. 112.
ff. 142r-149r
Title: Nusaḥ ha-ketubot ṿeha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
ff. 149r-152r
Title: Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2418, part XX.
ff. 152r-158v
Title: Mishnah Yoma

Followed by the first paragraph of Mishnah Sukah, chapter 1.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 158 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

158 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each. Signatures in Hebrew letters at teh beginning and often also at the end of quires, found only up to folio 97r.

Condition

Lacunae after folio 59, 75, 90.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 21 23

Written lines: 21 23

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Initial words and headings in larger square characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Numerous marginal notes and additions, in various hands.

Folio 1 is a later restoration.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century, puctuated.

ff. 152-158
written by a different hand of apparently 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebr. & Arab. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1479.'

History

Origin: ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 10 October 1883: inscribed, folio

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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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. 718.

Funding of Cataloguing

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