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Or 2389

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Or 2389
Title:
Sidur, Yemenite rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
213 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1635
End Date:
1635
Date Range:
1635
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Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Yosef Ben Shalom ben Yesha῾
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Or 2389

Sidur, Yemenite rite

Contents

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-213v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The text is provided with the superlinear punctuation, with the exceptions of the book of Lamentations and the biblical verse at the head of the services, which have the ordinary punctuation.

References are found in the margin to e.g. Shulḥan Arukh, David ibn Abudraham, Sharira, Natronai, Sar Shalom, Radaḳ, Amram Gaon. There are explanations of a number of difficult words in Arabic. In some cases the reading of the text is marked as 'ha-nusḥah ha-nekhonah' or 'ha-nuskḥah ha-meduyeḳet' (folio 99r, 150v, 157v).

ff. 1v-12r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 12r-24r
Title: Services for Sabbath

Includes reading from Is. 56:8, 58:13-14; Jer. 17:21-22; Ex. 16:29.

ff. 24r-25v
Title: Services for Rosh ḥodesh
ff. 25v-34v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

No mention of halel at the end of tefilat lele Pesaḥim.

ff. 34v-35v
Title: Tefilat ḥag ha-Shavu῾ot
ff. 35v-36r
Title: Tefilat ha-ta῾aniyot
ff. 36r-43r
Title: Services for Tish῾ah be-Av
ff. 43r-49r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 49r-50v
Title: Services for ῾asarah yeme teshuvah
ff. 50v-53r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
ff. 53r-65v
Title: Tefilat ḥag ha-Sukot
Filiation: Cf the services and hosh῾anot in [BL] Or 2418, part X.
ff. 65v-68v
Title: Seder ha-῾asiyah bi-shemonat yeme Ḥanukah

The Aramaic text of the Megilat bene Ḥasmonai is here accompanied by an Arabic translation in the margin.

ff. 68v-69r
Title: Services for Purim
ff. 69r-70v
Title: Tseloah almiyat
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2418.
ff. 70v-77r
Title: Tiḳun seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
ff. 77r-114v
Title: Seliḥot le-el raḥamim
ff. 114v-118r
Title: Seder ῾avodah
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2418, part XVI.
ff. 118r-121v
Title: A section on the form of prayer
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2227, part III.
ff. 121v-135v
Title: Berakhot
ff. 135v-150v
Title: Ma῾arafah ḥasab al-῾ibur
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2227, part VIII.

The date given in the calendar (5089, 1329) would seem to mark the time it was compiled or revised (cf also Or 2227). The date of the present manuscript is given further on (folio 142r) as 1946 (5395, 1635).

ff. 150v-157r
Title: Nusaḥ ha-ketubot, ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
ff. 157r-159r
Title: Toḥakhot u-vaḳashot
ff. 159r-191r
Title: Shirot ṿe-tishbahot
ff. 191r-195r
Title: Masekhet yoma

The text ends with the piyuṭ Shofeṭ kol ha-arets.

ff. 195r-213v
Title: Additions

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 213 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

213 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end (mostly not preserved).

Condition

Leaves stuck on paper (modern restoration).

Folios damaged at the beginning and at the end.

Only about half of folio 212 preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Numerous marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2389.'

Accompanying Material

Appended to the manuscript are the following fragments, originally portions of other manuscripts: folios 195r, 204v - Azharot of Solomon ibn Gabirol, followed by a series of hosh῾anot; folios 205r-211r - Keter malkhut of Solomon ibn Gabirol; folios 211v-212v - two poetical pieces; folio 213 - a calendar leaf on the years 5492-5505 (1732-1745). The first three parts belong most probably to the 17th century.

Folios 44-45, which originally belonged to another manuscript, are now bound with the present manuscript just before shaḥarit of Rosh ha-Shanah. This fragment is also of 17th century. Folio 44r has a note, in a fading ink, of a viduy after the passing of Rabi Yehudah Zeruvavel.

History

Origin: 1635 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 1r: a note of a former owner, Yosef Ben Shalom ben Yesha῾, written over an erasure originally occupied by another name.

1881-07-23

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 23 July 1881: inscribed, folio [214v].

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_2389 (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. 713.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL