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Or 2587

Record Id:
032-003375152
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Or 2587
Title:
Liturgical poems
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
60 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2587 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Eleazar Kallir
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Yehudah ha-Levi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2587

Liturgical poems

Contents

Portions of a collection of piyutim belonging to the Sefardi (North African) rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-60v
Title: Piyuṭim
Title: פיוטים

Among the authors of the piyuṭim are:Eleazar Kallir, Abraham ibn Ezra and Yehudah ha-Levi.

Catchwords decorated with animal and hybrid forms, in brown ink. f. 10v, 26v, 34v, 42v, 57v

ff. 1r-10v
Title: Piyuṭim for Pesaḥ

A fragment of series of piyuṭim (numbers 96-118 complete, and portions of 95-119).

ff. 11r-39v
Title: Piyuṭim for Sukot

A fragment of series of piyuṭim. Folios 11r-18v contain numbers 182-198, and portions of 181 and 199. Folios 19r-40r contain hosh῾anot and poetical pieces number 208-238.

ff. 40r-60v
Title: Piyuṭim

A fragment of a collection of piyuṭim with and without an indication of the time of use.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 60 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Lower margin of the last 20 folios damaged.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling and, occasionally, pricking.

Initial words and titles written in larger characters.

Pen and ink decorated catchwords (see e.g. folio 26v, 34v).

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

Additions:

A number of notes in a different hand than the bulk of the manuscript, e.g. folios 2r, 3r, 8r, 13r, 37r, etc.).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2587.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Africa, N. (Egypt?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased from him by the British Museum on 08 July 1882: inscribed, folio [61v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2587 (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. 706.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL