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Title:
Seder tiḳune Shabat
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
169 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1749
Date Range:
1700-1749
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Anne Kennicott
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Add MS 8881

Seder tiḳune Shabat

Contents

Summary of Contents: A kabbalistic book of prayers for the Sabbath, and the Pentateuch lections for Mondays and Thursdays throughout the year.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-169v
Title: Prayers
Title: תפילות

Numerous pen and ink illustrations of the text. f. 2v, 3r, 9r, 11v, 13r, 14v, 16v, 18r, 19v etc.

An illustrated title-page, in pen and ink. f. 1r

f. 6v a pen and ink decorated initial word.

ff. 1r-91v
Title: Seder tiḳune Shabat

Contains a large number of poetical pieces (fuller than Add MS 11433), as well as rubrical directions and explanations.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 11433.
ff. 92r-169v
Title: The Pentateuch lections

For Mondays and Thursdays throughout the year.

References

[Tikune-Shabat_1793]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the early 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 169 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 102 × 65 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 52 mm.
Foliation:

169 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves an 1 vellum at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 20

Written lines: 16 20

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios indistinguishable.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Many pages contain pen and ink illustrations.

Each page enclosed in a pen and ink frame.

Running title in the first part of the manuscript.

Catchwords given on every page.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square and semi cursive script (the 'Amsterdam font') of the early 18th century. Punctuated.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather binding with gold and black tooling, in dark brown leather gold-tooled box. Boxed.

Spine: 'Liber Institutionum Sabbati. Mus. Brit. Ex Legato Anne Kennicott. 8881.'

History

Origin: 1700-1749 First half of the 18th century Amsterdam?

Provenance and Acquisition

Attached flyleaf [ii]: a testamentary direction ofAnne Kennicott: 'After my death this Book is to be given to the British Museum as a part of Mr Cracherode's Legacy.

The initials E.I.L.P: on the flyleaf next to the title-page [iii recto].

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=Add_MS_8881 (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. 682.

Bibliography

    [Tikune-Shabat_1793] Isaac ben Solomon Luria, and יצחק בן שלמה לוריא. 'Tiḳune Shabat.'ויניציאה, תקנ"ג-02 Venice ie1793, 1793.

Funding of Cataloguing

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