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Or 2227

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Or 2227
Title:
Yemenite Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
249 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2227 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1540
End Date:
1540
Date Range:
1540
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avigad ben Daṿid Al-Nisakh
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Se῾adyah ben Yehudah Al-Ladani
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2227

Yemenite Sidur

Contents

A service book according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-249v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The text, including the books of Lamentation and Esther, is provided with the superlinear punctuation, with the exception of the biblical verse at the beginning of the Services, which has the sublinear punctuation.

The rules and directions are nearly all in Arabic in the Hebrew script.

Colophon: נכתב זה הסידור המפואר על שם השר הגדול המעוז המגדול אביר הרועים גזע נדיבים ושועים נטע שעשועים ילוד המשרה. ארי התורה ישמרהו האל הנורא הוא סעדיה ביר' כג"ק השר הגדול יהודה ביר' שלמה רי"ת ביר' יוסף אללדאני אלה' ישים אותו סימן טוב וברכה מעתה ועד עולם ויקיים עליו מקרא שכת' יברכך ה' וישמ' יאר ה' פנ' אליך ויח' ישא ה' פנ' [א?]ל' וישם לך שלום. ישע יקרב ששון יערב ספרא [ח]לשא ומסכינא אביגד בן דויד בן בניה בן סעדיה בן זכריה בן עודד בן מרגז אלנסאך אלה' ימחול לי על מה ששגיתי וטעיתי ונסתר מעיני ככתוב שגיאות מי יבין מנסתרות נקיני ונבצע יום אלגמעה דהוא שבעת עסר יומין בירח אב שנת אתתנ"א שנין לשטרי במדינה' צנעא ושלום. f. 248r
ff. 3v-24r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 24r-33v
Title: Services for Sabbath and other festivals

Special portions in the prayers for Sabbath, Yamim tovim, Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kipur, Rosh hodesh and the intermidiate periods.

ff. 33v-96v
Title: Series of directions

A series of directions regarding prayers and benedictions, with special portions belinging to different services.

Hosh῾anot begin on folio 44r.

ff. 96v-103v
Title: Masekhet avot
ff. 103v-169v
Title: A series of seliḥot

Includes all the services of the feast.

ff. 169v-182r
Title: Azkirah seder ῾avodah
ff. 182r-188v
Title: Nusaḥ ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
ff. 188v-205r
Title: Ḥasab al-῾ibur
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 2418.

The calendar shows that it was composed or revised in 5089 (1329).

ff. 205r-212v
Title: A series of ḳinot for Tish῾ah be-Av
ff. 212v-216v
Title: Mispedot
ff. 216v-224v
Title: Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot
ff. 224v-233r
Title: The book of Lamentations

With an Arabic translation, the same as in Or 1476.

ff. 233r-248r
Title: The book of Esther

With an Arabic translation, the same as in Or 1476.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 249 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 188 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

249 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters at the head of each quire.

Condition

Most of leaves partly damaged (lower margin).

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Visible leaf by leaf hard-point ruling.

The last line of text written outside ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Pen and ink decorated diagonal leaf catchwords on every verso.

Some marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of the 16th century. Avigad ben Daṿid Al-Nisakh: inscribed, folio 248r.

Additions:

Folio 1 and 249 contain portions of Leviticus XIV and XV, Hebrew text with Targum to each verse, both leaves are mutilated.

Folio 2 (vellum) contain Genesis 29:27-30:10, Hebrew text with Targum to each verse, both provided with the superlinear punctuation.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2227.'

History

Origin: 1540 Yemen (Sanaʿa)

Provenance and Acquisition

Se῾adyah ben Yehudah Al-Ladani: inscribed in the colophon, folio 248r.

Two records of birth, dated 1828 (1517) and 1833 (1522) respectively, in the main scribe's handwriting, folio 248r (below the colophon).

A record of transfer of the manuscript between the owners, Se῾adyah ben Yehudah Al-Ladani and Se῾adyah ben Mantsur Al-Ḥawidi, dated 1544, folio 248r.

1880-04-10

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 10 April 1880: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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_2227 (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. 711.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL