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Or 2390

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Or 2390
Title:
Sidur, Yemenite rite
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
124 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1643
End Date:
1643
Date Range:
1643
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avraham ben Shalom
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Zekhariah ben Daṿid
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2390

Sidur, Yemenite rite

Contents

A service book according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-124v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The text has superlinear punctuation, with the exception of the books of Lamentations (folio 37r sqq.), Esther (folio 53r sqq.), and biblical verses at the head, which have ordinary punctuation.

Directions are given partly in Arabic in Hebrew characters and partly in Hebrew.

There are marginal notes in different parts of the manuscript, containing directions, grammatical and lexical remarks , comments and explanations of various kinds. A number of authorities are quoted.

Colophon: נשלם בחסד האל וברחמיו בחמשא בשבא דהוא תלתה יומין לירח סיון שנת אתתקנד שנין לשטרי במאתא אלמצמאר מן גבל חראז יחרוב ויצדי וירושלם תתבני תהא שנה זו סוף וקץ לכל הצרות. תחלה וראש לכל הבשורות. יאמר קורא הדורות. א'כ'י'ר' על שם החבר הטוב והנעים נטע שעשועים מימון בן סעדיא בן משה י'ש'ל' אלמוסאיי ט'ו יזכהו להגות בו ולדקדק בעניניו ולהבין מצפוניו ויקיים עליו מקרא שכתוב לא ימוש ספר התורה [...] ועוד יקיים עוליו ועל זרעו יברכך יאר [...] השם למען שמו ימחול לי על כל מה ששגיתי וטעיתי ונסתר מעיני וכו'. f. 110v
ff. 4v-15r
Title: Services for week-days
Filiation: Cf [BL] Or 2418, part I, and [BL] Or 2389.
ff. 15r-25v
Title: Services for Sabbath
Filiation: Cf [BL] Or 2418, part II.
ff. 25v-27r
Title: Services for rosh ḥodesh
ff. 27r-35r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

At the beginning of ma῾ariv Psalm 107 is said before Psalms 1 and 2.

ff. 35r-35v
Title: Tefilat ḥag Shavu῾ot

Includes all the services of the feast.

ff. 35v-36v
Title: Tefilat ta῾aniyot
ff. 36v-43r
Title: Services for Tish῾ah be-av
ff. 43r-46r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 46r-48v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
ff. 48v-53r
Title: Tefilat ḥag Sukot
Filiation: Cf [BL] Or 2418, part X.
ff. 53r-55r
Title: Services for Purim

Only a portion of Esther is extant.

ff. 55r-63v
Title: Seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
ff. 63v-82r
Title: Seliḥot le-el raḥamim
Filiation: Cf the content of [BL] Or 2389, XVI.
ff. 85r-93v
Title: Berakhot
ff. 93v-102v
Title: ῾Ibur ha-shanim

The calculations are carried through to the year (5)289. Then follow general rules on the different kinds of years.

Filiation: Cf )r 2418, part XVIII, [BL] Or 2389, part XX.
ff. 102v-106v
Title: Nusaḥ ha-ketubot, ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
ff. 106v-110v
Title: Liturgical pieces

Includes Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 124 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, signed at the beginning and at the end.

Condition

Lacuna after folio 52.

Folios 113-118 originally belonged to another manuscript of about the same date.

Folios 111, 112, 119-124 are a recent addition.

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

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:

Folios 111-112: a calendar for the 286th and 287th cycle, followed by the series of prognostications based on the date of the teḳufot.

Folios 113-118: originally a part of another manuscript: several poetical pieces and additional blessings.

Folios 119r-123r: originally belonging to a different manuscript of approximately 18th century: additional prayers.

Folios 122v-123r: tiḳunim.

Folios 123v-124r: a table with a 292th cycle.

Folio 2r: partly illegible piece similar to Kol nidre.

Folio 2v: a poetical piece.

Folio 3r: three additional prayers.

Folio 4r: an additional prayer and the beginning of Kol nidre.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2390.'

History

Origin: 1643 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Maimon ben Se῾adya᾿ ben Mosheh Al-Musa᾿i (patron): inscribed, folio 110v.

Zekhariah ben Daṿid: inscribed with his name in a note, folio 1v.

Avraham ben Shalom: inscribed, folio 2r.

Folio 124r: two records of sale, dated 1797 and 1811 respectively.

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_2390 (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. 714.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL