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Title:
Penitential prayers
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
160 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
D. Nutt
M. Aschkenazi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19789

Penitential prayers

Contents

Summary of Contents: Penitential prayers for the intermediate nights of Rosh ha-Shanah and for the two nights of the festival, probably according to a North African rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-160v
Title: Seliḥot
Title: סליחות

Seliḥot are divided into 28 sections, beginning respectively on folios: 1r, 23v, 26v, 30r, 33r, 36r, 40v, 44v, 49v, 53r, 57r, 64v, 68v, 72v, 76r, 79v, 85r, 89v, 94v, 99r, 103r, 107r, 112r, 115v, 120v, 125r, 133v, 143v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 160 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

160 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 22 23

Written lines: 22 23

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every page.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed.

Spine: 'Selichoth. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,789.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Africa, N. (Egypt?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1854-04-08

M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [161v].

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. 707.

Funding of Cataloguing

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