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Or 2530

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032-003376281
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Or 2530
Title:
Karaite sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
359 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2530 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1690
Date Range:
1500-1690
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2530

Karaite sidur

Contents

Summary of Contents: A volume belonging to a series of Karaite service-books, which have been originally deposited in the Karaite Synagogue in Jerusalem.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-359v
Title: Sidur
Title: סידור

The services do not differ much from those contained in [BL] Or 2531 (Margoliouth, no. 725), the rite of Damascus being essentially the same as the order of services used at Jerusalem.

Colophon: וכתב זה התפלות אברהם כהן בן מרדכי כהן בן חיים כהן נ"ע ב'ז כ'י מ'א' א'כ'י'ר'נ'ס'. f. 359v
f. 3r
Title: A title-page
ff. 3v-83r
Title: Services for week-days

Services for the first day start on folio 3v, tefilat tsohorayim begins on folio 57r; services for other week-days start on folio 66r.

ff. 83r-103r
Title: Services for the Sabbath

Ma῾ariv starts on folio 83r, tefilat boḳer yom shabat starts on folio 100r (only a small part preserved).

ff. 103r-115r
Title: Services for Teru῾ah

Following is the order of services for the days intervening between Yom teru῾ah and Yom kipur.

Fragments of Ma῾ariv: folios 103r-104v, 105r-109v; Shaḥarit starts on folio 110r.

ff. 115r-196v
Title: Services for Sukot

The order of service on occasions when the mo῾ed falls on a shabat begins on folio 135v; boḳer yom rishon Ḥag ha-sukot begins on folio 136r; boḳer yom shemini ῾atseret begins on folio 157v; poetical pieces: folios 179r-196r.

ff. 196v-329r
Title: A series of services for fast days and Purim

Service for the fast of Ezra begins on folio 196v; service for ῾Asarah be-ṭeveṭ starts on folio 245r; service for Shabat Purim begins on folio 277r; service for Ta῾anit Ester starts on folio 298r; services for Yeme Purim start on folio 310r (partially preserved).

ff. 329r-333r
Title: An office used at marriages (a fragment)

Followed by an office of milah.

ff. 333r-358v
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh

Tefilat boḳer begins on folio 343r.

ff. 359r-359v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

The end of services only.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 359 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 158 mm.
Foliation:

359 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

Lacunae after folio 10, 14, 102, 104, 109, 136, 176, 358.

Several leaves are more or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Section titles written in larger square characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of the 16th to 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Karaite Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2530.'

History

Origin: 1500-1690 Jerusalem

Provenance and Acquisition

User's notes: folio 3r (upper left-hand margin): Shemu᾿el Leṿi ben Avraham ha-Leṿi: inscribed, dated (5)452 (1692); folio 359v: Avraham ben Shemu᾿el ha-Leṿi; Yitsḥaḳ ha-Leṿi, and another one partially illegible.

1882-07-08

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_2530 (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. 726.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL