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Or 14016

Record Id:
032-003381139
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14016
Title:
Sidur, minhag Ḳotsin
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
38 folios (iii+38+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14016 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Malayalam
Scripts:
Hebrew
Malayalam
Start Date:
1880
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1880-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
David Solomon Sassoon
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14016

Sidur, minhag Ḳotsin

Contents

Prayer book for Morning service according to the rite of the Jews of Cochin.

Language(s): Hebrew, ml

ff. 1r-38v
Title: סדור מנהג קוצ’ין לימות החול
Title:

In Hebrew and in Malayalam translation.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: crowned rampant lion over a coat of arms with 'PATRIA' written inside, underneath date: 1880 (e.g. ff. 35, 38); circle surrounded by a belt with inscription: 'JOSEFS ... SUPERE FOOLSCAP' (e.g. f. 11, 12). 1880
Extent: 38 folios (iii+38+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 163 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Numerous modern blank leaves (added as fillers) after f. 38 (not included in the digital surrogate).

Collation

Indeterminable.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Outer corners of the leaves got damaged, and have been fixed. Ff. 1-8: missing parts of the leaves fixed using blue paper; missing text is added.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 26 28

The Hebrew text is on the right side of the page, whilst the Malayalam is on the left side.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script and Malayalam script of the early19th century; Hebrew script is vocalised.

Binding

BL in-house binding, green, half-bound.

Title on spine: 'Prayers. Heb. & Malayalam. Brit. Lib. Oriental MS. 14016'.

History

Origin: 1880-1899 19th century (not before 1880, see watermark) India (Cochin)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired by Sassoon from ... (as a gift?): ;With compliments from [...] 28/03/10' (f. 1r).

David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942): collector of Jewish manuscripts: his bookplate on back pastedown.

Acquired from the Sassoon collection, at the Sotheby's sale in New York, May 1981; lot 15. Date of accession 21 October 1981.

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_14016 (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. 259, no. 119.
    Important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the collection formed by the late David Solomon Sassoon ... : public auction Tuesday May 12, 1981 (New York : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1981), p. 40, lot. 15.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL