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Or 5866

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Or 5866
Title:
Sidur, Sefardi rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
350 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5866 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Naaman, J.J.
Shelomoh Bekhor
ibn Gabirol
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5866

Sidur, Sefardi rite

Contents

A prayer book with services according to the Spanish rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-350v
Title: Sidur minhag Sefarad
Title: סדור מנהג ספרד
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 18690.

On the upper and lower margin of the manuscript are written: the Psalms (beginning on folio 4v), and the Proverbs (beginning on folio 297v).

The manuscript has not been subjected to censor's corrections, and Birkat ha-minim (folios 54v, 55r) and other parts are thus left untouched.

See also [Halamish_2000] 294, 449, 466, 622, 625.

ff. 3v-22v
Title: Poetical pieces

Preceded by two calendrical tables on folio 3v and 4r.

On folio 4v begins Keter malkhut of Solomon ibn Gabirol.

Folios 17r-23r contain baḳashot and other poetical pieces.

ff. 23r-71v
Title: Services for the week-days

The service for shaḥarit begins on folio 36v, shiv῾im u-shetayim pesuḳim begin on folio 56v; special portions for sheni ṿe-ḥamishi u-sheni begin on folio 59v.

ff. 72r-89v
Title: Services for sabbath
ff. 89v-128v
Title: Additional pieces for various occasions

Tiḳun rosh ḥodesh, folio 89v; Tiḳun Ḥanukah, folio 95r; Tiḳun yud be-ṭeveṭ, folio 99v; Hilkhot rosh hodesh, folio 104r; Hilkhot Ḥanukah, folio 104v; Megilat Antiochus (in Aramaic), folio 105v; Tiḳun Purim, folio 110r; parashat Purim, folio 118r.

ff. 128v-181r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Folios 128v-132v are occupied with dinim. Hagadah shel Pesaḥ begins on folio 133v, Shir ha-shirim on folio 162v, Avot on folio 167r. The lections from the Pentateuch and the Prophets are given in full both here and throughout the manuscript.

ff. 181r-200r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 200r-251r
Title: Services for fast-days
ff. 251r-259v
Title: Tiḳun seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
ff. 259v-275r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-shanah

Folios 259v-262r contain dinim.

ff. 275r-310v
Title: Services for Yom kipur

The dinim occupy folios 275r-276v. Ma῾ariv begins on folio 277r; shaḥarit, folio 280v; musaf, folio 288v; minḥah, folio 301r; ne῾ilah, folio 306v.

ff. 310v-343v
Title: Services for Sukot

Hosh῾anot begin on folio 313v.

ff. 343v-350v
Title: Tiḳun berakhot

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 350 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

350 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 1 vellum flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the ned.

Condition

Usage stains.

Folios 197-199 have slight rodent damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Visible complete ruling by hard point.

Initial words written in larger square characters.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable.

Sections marked in the margins. Additional marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, morocco binding, blind-tooled.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Spanish Rite. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Or. 5866.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Shelomoh Bekhor: inscribed, folio 2r.

Illegible owner's description, folio 287r.

J.J. Naaman: purchased from him on 13 November 1900: inscribed, folio [354v].

1900-11-13

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_5866 (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. 693.

Bibliography

    [Halamish_2000] חלמיש, משה. 'הקבלה בתפילה, בהלכה ובמנהג / משה חלמיש.'רמת גן: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, 2000.

Funding of Cataloguing

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