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Or 2673

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032-003314038
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Or 2673
Title:
Yemenite sidur
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
226 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2673 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1663
End Date:
1663
Date Range:
1663
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CE
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Names:
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Zekharia ben Se῾adyah Alma῾alim
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2673

Yemenite sidur

Contents

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-226v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
Colophon: שלים בסייעתא דשמיא בתרין בשבא דהוא תרין יומין לירח ניסן שמת אתתקעד שמין לשטרי במאתא אלגאהלייה דעל בירא דמייא צאבחה תחרוב ותצדי וירושלם תתבני אכיר ונכתב על שם החבר הטוב הדומה לעץ רטוב גם ייי יתן לו הטוב והב בן יחיא אלםטייר אלהים יזכיהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו ככת' לא ימוש ס'ה'ה'מ'ו'ב'י'ו'ל'ת'ל'כ'ה'ב'כ'א' תצליח את דרכיך ואז תשכיל וכתב ידי אני הצעיר זכריא בן סעדיה אלמעלם . אלהים יזכיני לכתוב עד אין קץ אמן וכן יהי רצון. f. 177r
ff. 1r-11v
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 11v-20v
Title: Services for the Sabbath
ff. 20v-22r
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh
ff. 22r-37v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ
ff. 37v-38r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 38r-49r
Title: Services for Tish῾ah be-av
ff. 49r-54r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
Filiation: Cf. Or 2227 fol. 103v sqq.; Or 2389, folio 49r sqq.
ff. 54r-60r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Masekhet Yoma is embodied (fol. 56r sqq.).

ff. 60r-73r
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.
ff. 73r-77v
Title: Services for Ḥanukah

In the Megilat bene Ḥashmona᾿i (fol. 74r sqq.) an Arabic translation in Hebrew character follows each verse of the Aramaic.

ff. 77v-83r
Title: Services for Purim
Filiation: Cf. Or 2418.
ff. 83r-86v
Title: Tseloah almiyat
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2227, part X.
ff. 86v-93r
Title: Tiḳun seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2418, part XIV.
ff. 93r-129r
Title: Seliḥot le-el raḥamim
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2389, XVI.
ff. 132r-133v
Title: Directions
Filiation: Cf. Or 2227, part III.
ff. 133v-147v
Title: Berakhot
ff. 147v-169v
Title: ῾Ibur ha-shanim

Tables begin with 1663 (5423) in cycle 286, and of the cycles 287 to 293 complete tables are given; the two latter cycles have been inserted later before folio 158. There are number of notes in the margin, accompanying the cycles.

ff. 169v-177v
Title: Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot
Filiation: Cf. the content of Or 2418.
ff. 178r-225v
Title: Additions

Appended are first two parts of the fifth book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (folios 178-225). Defective at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 226 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Folio 155 was originally followed by folio 158, folios 156-157 having been inserted later.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Leaves stuck on paper (modern restoration).

Folios damaged at the beginning and at the end.

Lacuna after folio 3, 5, 37. Folios 1-5 and 14 are later restorations.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 29 30

Written lines: 29 30

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Initial words written in larger square characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Numerous marginal notes and additions.

Headings partly with penwork decoration.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century, puctuated. Zekharia ben Se῾adyah Alma῾alim: inscribed, folio 177v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Prayerbook. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2673.'

History

Origin: ; 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: inscribed, folio [228v].

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_2673 (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. 716.

Funding of Cataloguing

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