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Or 1480

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Or 1480
Title:
Yemenite sidur
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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153 folios
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 1480

Yemenite sidur

Contents

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-153v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The text is generally provided with the superlinear punctuation, with the exception of the books of Lamentation (folio 46v sqq.) and Esther (folio 82r sqq.). There is a large number of notes, partly written in the margin and partly between portions of text, containing comments and directions.

ff. 1r-11r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 11r-24v
Title: Services for the Sabbath

Tefilat lele shabat, folio 11r; shaḥarit shel shabat, folio 13v; tefilat musaf, folio 15r; tefilat minḥah, folio 16r; tefilat motse shabat, folio 21v.

Filiation: Cf. Or 1480.
ff. 24v-27r
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh
ff. 27r-38v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

The earlier portion of the Seder is accompanied by two commentaries, the fuller one written by the side of the text, and the other (starting on folio 29v) in the margin (both in Judeo-Arabic).

ff. 38v-45r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot

Azharot: folio sqq. 39v.

ff. 45r-45v
Title: Ta῾aniyot
ff. 45v-50r
Title: Services for Tish῾ah be-av
ff. 50r-56v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah

Ma῾ariv, folio 50r; tefilat shaḥarit, folio 53r; tefilat musaf, folio 55r.

ff. 57r-64r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ibn Gabirol's Keter malkhut is given between musaf and minḥah.

ff. 64r-76r
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.

Explanations in Arabic are also sometimes inserted in the body of the commentary.

ff. 76v-81r
Title: Services for Ḥanukah

Includes Megilat bene Ḥashmona᾿i (folio 77v sqq.).

ff. 81r-86r
Title: Services for Purim
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.

Includes Megilat Esther (folio 82r sqq.).

ff. 86r-87r
Title: Tefilat ha-met
ff. 87v-99r
Title: Seder seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2418, part XIV, and Or 1480, part XIV.
ff. 99r-124v
Title: Seliḥot le-El raḥamim
ff. 124v-128r
Title: Seder ῾avodah
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, part XVI.
ff. 128r-135v
Title: Berakhot
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, part XVII.
ff. 135v-140r
Title: ῾Ibur ha-shanim
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, XVIII; Or 2390, fol. 112.

Folios 136, 137, which have been inserted between folios 135-138, contain a calendar of cycles 288-291, the first year being 5454 1694).

ff. 140r-144r
Title: Nusaḥ ha-ketubot ṿeha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418, part XIX.
ff. 144r-146v
Title: Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2418, part XX.

Additional liturgical pieces.

ff. 147r-153v
Title: Masekhet Yoma

Followed by Seder ῾avodah, folios 150r-153v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 153 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 140/150 mm.
Foliation:

153 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end). Folio 153r is blank.

Collation

Quire system difficult to see due to later repais; catchwords on every verso.

Condition

Lacunae after folio 135, 146. Defective at the beginning.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 35

Written lines: 33 35

Visible mastara ruling.

Initial words written in larger square characters.

Numerous marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive scripts of the 17th to 18th century, punctuated.

ff. 1-108
,
ff. 109-116
,
ff. 117-125
,
ff. 126-133
,
ff. 134-146
, and
ff. 147-152
written by different hands of apparently 17th to 18th century.

Decoration

Decorative panels around the initial words on folio 58v, decorated initial words (e.g. folios 27r, 50r, 98r).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Prayerbook. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1480.'

History

Origin: 17th-18th century ; Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

1883-10-10

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 10 October 1883: numbering 'No 29' (corrected to 30) probably by him on folio 1r.

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_1480 (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. 717.

Funding of Cataloguing

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