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Or 13871

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Or 13871
Title:
Ḳinot li-vene Miḳra
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
19 folios (i+19+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
David Solomon Sassoon
Subjects:
Karaites--Liturgy
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 13871

Ḳinot li-vene Miḳra

Contents

A liturgy for the Ninth of Av according to the Karaite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-19r
Title: קינות לבני מקרא
Title: Ḳinot li-vene Miḳra
Incipit: ברוך העזק והמקים

Solomon ben Yeroḥam is mentioned at the end on f. 19r: ...ותשב באותו קשתו החכם המופלא אשר היה לבורות העמוקות מגלה. אשר דרש וחקר ושל בעניני התורה ופרושיה וגלה רזה המקרא... סלמון בן ירוחם

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark with a star and a cresent (e.g. ff. 3, 4).
Extent: 19 folios (i+19+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 136 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 19v.

Earlier pagination in pencil has been cancelled.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 17 18

Uniform layout.

Section headings in larger, square characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive and cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600, brown cloth binding.

Sassoon's(?) label and catalogue number on spine: '226', 'קינות לבני המקרא'; title on spine supplied at the BM: 'Ḳīnōth. Hebrew. Oriental MS. 13871.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Egypt or turkey?

Provenance and Acquisition

David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942): collector of Jewish manuscripts.

Acquired from the Sassoon collection, at the Sotheby's sale in Zürich, November 1978. Date of accession 30 November 1978.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_13871 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, D.S., אהל דוד (Ohel Dawid) Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), v. 1, p. 275-276.
    The catalogue of the Sotheby's sale prepared by Ch. Abramsky, Catalogue of Thirty-eight Highly Important Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts from the collection formed by the late David Solomon Sassoon (Zürich, 1975), lot no. 16.

Funding of Cataloguing

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