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Or 10662

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Or 10662
Title:
Service book, Yemenite rite
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
315 folios (i+315+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Start Date:
1759
End Date:
1760
Date Range:
1759-1760
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10662

Service book, Yemenite rite

Contents

Service book according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew

ff. 2ar-314r
Title: תכלאל
Title: Tiklal

Begins with an extract from a piyut in Arabic (f. 1r), and an index of the selihot which are in the manuscript (ff. 1v-2r).

Including among others ff. 49-75r: liturgy for Passover including the Haggadah with commentary; ff. 79r-86v: Lamentations; ff. 86v-97v: ḳinot for Tishah be-Av; ff. 97v-111r: liturgy for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipurim; ff. 111r-121v: liturgy for Sukot and Hoshana Rabah; ff. 136v-143r: מגלת בני חשמונאי; ff. 144r-156r: Megilat Ester; f. 157r-162v: prayers for illness and death; ff. 250r-261r: azharot; ff. 261r-268r: blessings; ff. 275r-298r: עבור השנים including calendrical tables on ff. 283r-287r: for the years 1759/6 - 1844/5; ff. 298r-305r: נוסח הכתובות והגטין והשטרות.

Megilat Esther with Rashi commentary.

With commentaries and rulings, mainly from Shulhan Arukh, in the margins.

At the end of the manuscript are lots of divinations in Arabic. F. 315v: a ketubah from the year 2174 SE (=1863) in מאתא אלמלח מן קרא אלגאהלייה. The groom is Daʿud Ibn Daʿud al-Kanizi and the bride is Habiba bint Yihya al-Madaʿi. On their divorce see [BL] Or 10635, f. 13.

Colophon: נשלם בחד בשבא דהוא יום כ' לחדש אדר סדר ויקהל ופקודי שנת תרין אלפין ושבעין וחד שנין לשטרות במאתא אלמלחה מן מעאזיב אלגאהליה ... והכותב קל הקלים עפר רגלי החכמים המתאבק בעפר הרגליהם ושותה בצמא את דבריה יחיא ן’ סלם ן’ סלימאן אלמכונה אלימני אלהים ימחול לי של כל מה ששגיתי וטעיתי והוספתי ונסתר מעיני ככתוב שגיאות מי יבין מנסתרות נקיני והמוצא טשות ידין אותי לכף זכות שכל הדן את חברו לכף זכות דנין אותו לכף זכות... f. 314r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 93, 96).
Extent: 315 folios (i+315+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160/165 × 110/115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of 8-10 leaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, dirt.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 23

Section headings are in larger characters.

Marginal notes.

F. 314v: text in two columns; f. 315v: text running perpendicular to the spine.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 18th century; with superlinear punctuation. Scribe: Yaḥya ibn Salīm ibn Sulaimān at אלמלחה.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'סדר התפלה תימן MS. No. 6. M.G.'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1759-1760 Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 2v: birth record of Ḥayim Ibn David Yemini from 2113 SE (1801/2); and a list, written by the owner, of cookware and bakeware which he loaned to various people (f. 2v).

F. 156v: death records.

Ownership inscriptions on f. 2v, one in calligraphic form: הצעיר אברם ן' שמו[אל]?.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 6; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 5 July 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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