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Or 2417

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032-003375126
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Or 2417
Title:
Sidur, Yemenite rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
155 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2417 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1650
End Date:
1650
Date Range:
1650
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
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
N. Mavrocordato
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Yehudah ben Mosheh ben Se῾adyah ben Avraham ha-Leṿi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2417

Sidur, Yemenite rite

Contents

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite, with the books of Psalms and Proverbs prefixed.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-155v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The bulk of the manuscript (folios 33-138) is dated 1961 (1650), and the prefixed and appended portions were probably written a little later.

Colophon: שלים בסיועתא דשמיא בחד בשבא דהוא תלתה יומין לירח אב יהפך לששון שנת אתתקס"א לשטרי' ספרא קלא חיים באמ' שלום בן דוד בן יצחק בן שלמה ן' יעקב הידוע אלחגאני אלהים יזכיני להרבות ספרים עד אין קץ כי"ר ונכתב על שם החבר הטוב והנעים [ילד] שעשועים נטע נעמנים בן הנאמנים יהודה בן מש[ה] בן סעדיה אלצנעאני אללוי יש"ל אלהים יזכהו להגות בו וכו'. f. 138v
ff. 1r-26r
Title: Psalms
ff. 26r-34v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 34v-42r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 42r-50r
Title: Services for the Sabbath
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2418, part II.
ff. 50r-51r
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2418, part III.
ff. 51r-57r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2418, part IV.
ff. 57r-61v
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 61v-62r
Title: Prayer for the fast days
ff. 62r-76v
Title: Services for Tish῾ah be-av

The book of Lamentations begins on folio 62v. The book of Job is also given at the end of this part.

ff. 76v-79v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2418, part VIII.
ff. 79v-86r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2418, part IX.

At the end of this part is Keter malkhut of Solomon ibn Gabirol.

ff. 86r-93r
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Cf the services and hosh῾anot in [BL] Or 2418, part X, and [BL] Or 1480, part .

In the margin around the haḳafot there are pieces beginning in each case with 'raḥmana'.

ff. 93r-95r
Title: Services for Ḥanukah
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2418, part XI.
ff. 95r-95v
Title: Services for Purim
ff. 95v-96r
Title: Tseloah almiyat
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2418, part XIII.
ff. 96r-101r
Title: Seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2418, part XIV.
ff. 101r-119v
Title: Seliḥot le-el raḥamim
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2389, XVI.
ff. 123r-127v
Title: Berakhot
ff. 127v-132v
Title: ῾Ibur ha-shanim

Tables of cycles 285-287 are given in full, the manuscript having been written in the first year of maḥzor 285 (1650). Calculations for the different kinds of years follow.

ff. 132v-135r
Title: Nusaḥ ha-ketubot, ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
ff. 135r-138v
Title: Liturgical pieces
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2418.

Includes Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot and Shirot ṿe-tishbaḥot.

ff. 139r-155v
Title: Additions

A number of appended sections, written in various hands: folio 139r sqq. - Nusaḥ ha-sha῾anon, folio 144v sqq. - Poetical pieces; folio 153r sqq. - Tokhaḥot ṿe-azharot.

Between these appended sections there are five of additional poetical pieces and petitions, all more all less damaged.

Folio 155 contains Birkat ha-levanah.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 155 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

155 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Folios 1-33 have a separate Hebrew foliation (from 63 onwards, folios 34-95 being numbered 1-62).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end (mostly not preserved).

Condition

Leaves stuck on paper (modern restoration).

Folios damaged at the beginning and at the end.

Lacuna after folio 95.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Numerous marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script of the 17th century, puctuated. Shalom ben Daṿid ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh ben Ya῾aḳov Al-Ḥag᾿ani: inscribed, folio 138v.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2417.'

History

Origin: 1650 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 34r: a partly illegible contract of purchase.

Yehudah ben Mosheh ben Se῾adyah ben Avraham ha-Leṿi of Sanaʿa: inscribed, folio 34r and in the colophon, folio 138v.

1881-10-08

N. Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)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_2417 (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. 715.

Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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