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Or 2531

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Or 2531
Title:
Karaite sidur, rite of Damascus
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
223 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2531 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1700
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1700
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CE
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Names:
Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed ben Yesh῾ayah Firuz
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Or 2531

Karaite sidur, rite of Damascus

Contents

A Karaite service-book according to the rite of Damascus.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-223v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
Colophon: נשלם בעז' אלהי בחדש אלול משנת ה'ת'ס' ליצי' והסימן י'ה'י'ה' ק'ד'ש' ל'א' יגאל והי שנת אלפים ואחד עשר לשטרות ה' יכפיל שכר כותבו ומקדישו א'כ'י'ר'. f. 208v
ff. 3v-16r
Title: Introduction to the Karaite liturgy

No author's name is given not any authorities quoted in it; perhaps the treatise was authored by the scribe Daniel ben Mosheh Firuz.

On folio 9v begins a list of Psalms and haftarot belonging to each pericope of the Pentateuch.

ff. 16r-53r
Title: Prayers for week-days

The evening service for the first week-day is missing entirely, as is the greater part of the morning service for the first day (about 45 leaves have been lost after folio 15).

Services for the first day begin on folio 16r, services for evening and morning of the five other week-days, folio 35v.

Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2356, VI.
ff. 53r-99r
Title: Services for Sabbath-days

The evening prayer, folio 53r; the morning prayer, folio 60r; the afternoon prayer, folio 93v.

ff. 99r-113v
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh

The evening prayer, folio 99r; the morning prayer, folio 104r; services for the Sabbath and rosh ḥodesh, folio 107v.

ff. 113v-148r
Title: Services for the season of Pesaḥ

The benediction of aviv, folio 113v; services corresponding to Halel ha-gadol, folio 114v; the ten plagues, folio 129v; then follow poetical pieces and Torah lections.

ff. 148r-208v
Title: Services for special Sabbaths

For Sabbath Be-shalaḥ, folio 148r; Ṿa-yishma῾, folio 159r; Purim, folio 170r; Ki tisa, folio 177r; Ekhah, folio 186r; Balaḳ, folio 187v; Shabat naḥamu, folio 188v; Ṿa-etḥanan, folio 197v; Kipur, folio 202v.

ff. 209r-223v
Title: Appendix

Five fragments of another copy of the same rite, with some differences (folios 209-211, 212, 213, 214-216, 217--223 respectively).

References

[Seder_Karaim_1854]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 223 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, signed with Hebrew letters.

Condition

Defective at the end.

Leaves lost after folio 15, 106, 158, 205, 208, 211, 212, 213, 216.

Four quires missing at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 23

Written lines: 20 23

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Titles of sections written in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the early 18th century. Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed ben Yesh῾ayah Firuz: inscribed, folio 3r.

ff. 209r-223v
: originally part of a different manuscript. Also, folio 2r, lines 3v-9v, appears to be in a different hand.

Additions:

Folio 2r is a title page, and folio 3r begins with a dedication.

Folios 219-223 are later additions.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Karaite Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2531.'

History

Origin: 1700 Syria (Damascus)

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed (folio [224v]).

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_2531 (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. 725.

Bibliography

    [Seder_Karaim_1854] 'Seder Tefilot Ha-Ḳaraʾim.'Wien, 1854.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL