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Or 10702

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Or 10702
Title:
Sidur minhag Paras
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
30 folios (iii+30+iv)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10702 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10702

Sidur minhag Paras

Contents

A fragment of the prayer book for the entire year according to the Persian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-30v
Title: סדור מנהג פרס לכל השנה (קטעים)
Title: Sidur minhag Paras le-khol ha-shanah (ḳeṭaʿim)
Incipit: בעד הבדלה אומ' בא"ה אמ"ה

Includes excerpts from the Passover Haggadah and from Passover prayers, prayers for the conclusion of the Sabbath, selihot and prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah.

F. 30r: remains of Josiah ben Mevorakh al-ʿAqūlī's calendar in the form of a continuous sequence of 247 year types, of which only numbers 218-241 have survived (that is from 1457-1480). Cf. [BL] Or 10576.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 30 folios (iii+30+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on most versos.

Condition

F. 30 is damaged, only upper left corner survived; rest of the leaves have also been damaged and very fragile.

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Section heading are in larger, square characters.

Ruling is visible (mastara?).

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 15th century; vocalised.

Additions:

Ff. 9-10 are smaller leaves written in a different hand.

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

Fragment of an envelope addressed to Gaster is included into the collation (called 'back flyleaf (ii)' in digital surrogate). Address on the envelope: Dr. Rev. M. Gaster 193 Maida Val(!) W. London Englande(!)' Stamped in Samarkand, 18 June 1910.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Persia

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1396; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 5 February 1932.

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_10702 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Vidro, Nadia, 'The origins of the 247-year calendar cycle', Aleph 17 (2017), p. 106.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL