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Or 6980

Record Id:
032-003375781
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6980
Title:
Prayer scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
3 membranes, 7 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6980 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6980

Prayer scroll

Contents

The Scroll of Joshua the High Priest.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Tefilot
Title: תפלות

Scripture readings and prayers by the Jews of Baghdad, to be used at the tomb of the High Priest Joshua, spoken of in the third chapter of Zechariah.

The devotions begin with the recital of Zechariah 2:14-4:7, and end with Psalms 16, 126, and 134.

Colophon: קודש לה' לעילוי נשמת אדונינו יהושיע כהן גדול ז'י'ע'א'. הקדיש אותה עזרא יחחם בן הגביר הר' יוסף עזרא אברהם ה'י'ו' לחיי בנו ידידו הבחיר עבדאל ה'י'ו' יזכה לתורתו ולחופתו בחיי מור' זקינו ובחיי קרוביו אכי"ר. על ידי המעתיק אליעזר יאודא מצליח י'צ'ו'. f. 1r

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 17th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 3 membranes, 7 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 1720 mm.

Collation

3 membranes, leather tie.

Condition

A little dirt and wear at outer end.

Slight ink abrasion.

Layout

Columns:7

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking.

Graphic filler at the end of a line.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script of the 17th century.

Binding

Tin canister. BM in-house (boxed).

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Iraq (Baghdad)

Provenance and Acquisition

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_6980 (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. 1163.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL