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Or 6426

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Or 6426
Title:
Maḥzor le-Yamim Noraʿim, minhag Tsefon Afriḳah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
73 folios (i+73+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
M. N. Adler
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6426

Maḥzor le-Yamim Noraʿim, minhag Tsefon Afriḳah

Contents

Services for the New Year and the Day of Atonement according to the rite of Algiers.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-71v
Title: מחזור מנהג צפון אפריקה לימים נוראים
Title: Maḥzor minhag Tsefon Afriḳah le-Yamim Noraʿim
Incipit: ערבית של ראש השנה

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 24, 51), countermark 'P' (e.g. f. 58).
Extent: 73 folios (i+73+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175/180 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 8v is blank.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

Exposure to water caused some of the text to be imprinted on the opposite facing pages.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Section headings are in larger, square characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew (North African) cursive and square script of the 18th-19th century.

Ff. 1-8r: written by a different hand than the rest of the manuscript.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 1a, 1b, 2, 72, 73a, and 73b: reused sheets with lists, calculations and scribbles on them.

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Title on spine: 'Services for New Year & Day of Atonement. Algiers Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6426'.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century North Africa (Algiers)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought from M. N. Adler esq. October 14. 1902'; date of accession November 1902.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6426 (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), v. IV, p. 154.

Funding of Cataloguing

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