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Or 6355

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032-003375776
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Or 6355
Title:
Sidur according to the Yemenite rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
70 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6355 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Lifkin
Raffalovich
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6355

Sidur according to the Yemenite rite

Contents

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-70v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
ff. 1r-50v
Title: Services for Sabbath

The ritual for lel Shabat begins on folio 1r; tefilat shaḥarit de-Shabat begins on folio 16v; tefilat musaf begins on folio 48v.

ff. 51r-70v
Title: Miscellaneous offices

Tiḳun rosh ḥodesh, folio 51r; Tefilat minḥah shel Shabat, folio 52r; Seder havdalah, fol. 52v; Birkat ha-levanah, folio 52v; Seder ha-῾asiyah bi-shemonat yeme Hanukah, folio 53v; Birkat erusin ve-nisu᾿in, folio 53v; Birkat ha-milah, folio 57r; Pidyon ha-ben, folio 58v; Birkat ha-mazon, folio 58v; Tiḳun Purim, folio 61r; Seder ha-ḳeri᾿ah le-yom rosh ḥodesh, folio 65v; Hashkavah le-ish, folio 66r; Tefilat rashe ḥodashim, folio 66v; Baḳashah le-rabi Yishma᾿el, folio 67r; Nusaḥ ḳadish, folio 70r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 70 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

70 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of 10 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19 20

Written lines: 19 20

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Initial words and titles written in larger characters and highlighted in red ink.

Several marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 17th century.

Additions:

Folio 60r: a short form of execration against the enemies of Israel, in pencil.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6355.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

1902-04-15

Raffalovich and Lifkin: purchased by the British Museum from them on 15 April 1902: inscribed, folio [71v].

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_6355 (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. 719.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL