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Or 5978

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Or 5978
Title:
Sidur, rite of Corfu
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
178 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5978 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
L. Bulleli
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5978

Sidur, rite of Corfu

Contents

A daily prayer book according to the rite used in Corfu.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-178v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 3r-30r
Title: Morning prayers

The order begins with the song of Hannah (1Sam. 2), followed by other verses from Scripture.

ff. 30r-35r
Title: Piyuṭim
ff. 35r-66v
Title: Prayers for special Sabbaths

Seder Shabat ṿe-rosh ḥodesh begins on f. 35r; Seder Shabat ṿe-Ḥanukah - f. 38r; Seder Shabat sheḳalim - f. 42r; Seder Shabat zekhor - f. 46r; Seder Shabat parah - f. 53r; Seder Shabat ha-ḥodesh - f. 57r; Seder Shabat ha-gadol shel Pesaḥ - f. 60r.

ff. 66v-122v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Seder ῾arvit shel Pesaḥ begins on f. 66v; Seder yom rishon shel Pesaḥ - f. 83r; Seder yom sheni shel Pesaḥ - f. 92r; Seder Shabat ṿe-ḥol ha-mo῾ed shel Pesaḥ - f. 98r; Seder lel shevi῾i shel Pesaḥ - f. 107r; Seder yom shemini shel Pesaḥ - f. 115r.

ff. 122v-142r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot

Seder Shabat gadol shel Shavu῾ot begins on f. 122v; ῾Arvit le-Shavu῾ot - f. 127r; Seder yom rishon shel Shavu῾ot - f. 128r; Seder yom sheni shel Shavu῾ot - f. 138r.

ff. 142r-178v
Title: Services for Sukot

῾Arvit for Sukot begins on f. 142r; Seder yom rishon shel Sukot - f. 143r; Seder yom sheni shel Sukot - f. 149r; Seder Shabat ṿe-ḥol ham-mo῾ed shel Sukot - f. 152r; ῾Arvit le-Shemini ῾atseret - f. 157v; Seder yom Shemini ῾atseret - f. 158r; Seder lel Simḥah Torah - f. 163v; Seder yom Simḥah Torah - f. 163v. Appended is Israel Nagara's Ketuvah le-shavu῾ot.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 178 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation is preserved.

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 to 18 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Punctuated.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Greek?) square script of the 18th century, punctuated (with errors).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Mahzor. Corfu Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5978.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Ottoman Empire (Corfu?)

Provenance and Acquisition

1901-03-30

Dr L. Bulleli: purchased from him by the British Museum on 30 March 1901: inscribed, [179v].

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_5978 (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. 686.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL