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Or 10576

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Or 10576
Title:
Sefer tefilot (Sidur), minhag Paras
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
183 folios (i+183+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
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 10576

Sefer tefilot (Sidur), minhag Paras

Contents

Hebrew prayer book according to the Persian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Persian

ff. 1r-152v
Title: סדור מנהג פרס לכל השנה
Title: Sidur minhag Paras le-khol ha-shanah

Some parts and liturgical instructions are in Judeo-Persian.

Probably incomplete at the end. The catchword on f. 152v does not match the beginning of the calendar on f. 153r.

Incomplete.

ff. 153r-183v
Title: Calendar
Incipit: מחזור רמז לרבי יאשיהו זצ"ל f. 153r

F. 153r: אגר כאהי כה קנון מחזור בראני אז תאריך אסכנדר א'ת'צ'ד' יעני הזאר...

247-year cycle attributed to Josiah ben Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī. The calendar starts after 1494 SE (that is 1182/3) and must have been copied from an earlier Vorlage. The cycle is presented as a numbered sequence of 247 year-types. Cf. London, BL, Or 10702.

From f. 158v: description of the various type of years.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 183 folios (i+183+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 182/187 × 120/125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130/125 × 70/85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Not uniform layout.

Section headings in larger characters.

Left margins are not justified.

Marginal notes.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Persian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 16th-17th century; partially vocalised.

Additions:

Ff. 1-3 seem to be from a different manuscript (different page layout, different hand, different-size folios).

Binding

Post-1600, light brown textile binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1081 סדר תפלות מנהג פרס ...'.

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1081; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 12 November 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and G. M. Meredith-Owens, Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10576 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Meredith-Owens, G. M., Handlist of Persian Manuscripts 1895-1966 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1968), p. 43.
    Tobi, Yosef, The Jews of Yemen: Studies in Their History and Culture (Leiden: Brill, 1999), p. 215 n12.
    Vidro, Nadia, 'The origins of the 247-year calendar cycle', Aleph 17 (2017), p. 106.
    Fihrist (http://www.fihrist.org.uk/profile/manuscript/a27b5285-6c93-48f2-8109-c8f232295a72)

Funding of Cataloguing

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