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Or 2532

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032-003376282
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Or 2532
Title:
Karaite Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
212 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2532 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1690
End Date:
1709
Date Range:
1690-1709
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2532

Karaite Sidur

Contents

Summary of Contents: A second 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-212v
Title: Sidur
Title: סידור
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Or 2530 (Margoliouth, no. 726), for the first volume of the set of five.
ff. 1r-9r
Title: [Tsiduḳ ha-din]
ff. 9r-212v
Title: Service for Yom kipur

The morning service starts on folio 9r; the afternoon service starts on folio 164r; the Ten Commandments begin on folio 173v; Ṿiduyim start on folio 174r.

The hafṭarah consists of the book of Jonah and starts on folio 187v.

The alphabethical pieces start on folio 193r, then follows a kind of a ne῾ilah prayer (folio 196v), and then other poetical and alphabethical pieces (folios 200v-212v).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 212 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 146 mm.
Foliation:

212 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning.

Lacuna after folio 8.

Many of the extant leaves are more or less damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 22

Written lines: 17 22

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 2532.'

History

Origin: 1690-1709 Jerusalem

Provenance and Acquisition

Previous user's entries, partially illegible: inscribed with a date of 5476 (1716); folio 212v.

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_2532 (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. 727.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL