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Or 10301
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- Or 10301
- Title:
- Seder tefilot le-taʿanit shel ʿatsirat geshamim
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 122 folios (i+122+i)
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- Languages:
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- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1700-1899
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10301
Seder tefilot le-taʿanit shel ʿatsirat geshamim
Contents
A service book for a public fast day, praying for rain, instituted during a drought.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-123vTitle: Seder tefilot le-taʿanit shel ʿatsirat geshamimTitle: סדר תפלות לתענית של עצירת גשמיםPerhaps compiled by Moses Uzziel, see f. 57v, line 1: אני הצעיר משה עזיאל. His name occurs elsewhere in the manuscript as author of piyutim (e.g. f. 110v).
Only from the second blessing of the six blessings which were added to the Amidah prayer in the ta’anit (fast) for drought relief.
With selihot and piyutim, one of them is a rehuta (a certain type of piyutim) by Yehudah Tzarfati (f. 78r), which begins: ירצה תפלת עבדיך, and another is a confession composed by Mosheh Azriʾel (f. 110v).
Incomplete at the beginning; lacunae for example after f. 93., f. 97v (cf. notes in English in pencil on these leaves).
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 122 folios (i+122+i)Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 102 mm.Dimensions (written): 80 × 62 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Collation
Currently 14 quires: iseven, ii-viii8, ix6, x8, xi8-1, xiifive, xii-xiii8, xiv8+1.
Signatures in Hebrew characters marking the beginning of the original quires (ff. 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 78, 86, 95, 98, 106, 114). F. 8 used to be the beginning of quire v,
Catchword on every verso; signatures on the first leaf of some of the quires starting (ff. 8r, 16r, 24r, 32r, 40r, 48r, 56r, 64r, 72r, 78r, 86r, 95r, 98r, 106r, 114r). First signature is on f. 8r indicating that it is the beginning of quire 5.
Condition
Upper part of the collation is damaged, damaged.
Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.
Layout
Columns:1
Number of written lines per page varies.
Hand(s)
Oriental (North-African?) Hebrew cursive script of the 18th-19th century.
Binding
Post-1600 binding.
Spine with M. Gaster's label: "670 סדר תפלה לתענית לעצירת גשמים".
History
Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster's note on f. 1r: 'NB unique M.G.'; his initials and note on f. 122v: 'M.G. I 905'.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 670; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10301 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Marmorstein, A., 'The Amidah of the Public Fast Days', Jewish Quarterly Review 15 (1924/25), pp. 409-418.Funding of Cataloguing
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