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Or 10658

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Or 10658
Title:
Penitential prayers, Yemenite rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
88 folios (ii+88+ii)
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Hebrew
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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 10658

Penitential prayers, Yemenite rite

Contents

Penitential prayers according to the Yemenite rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-87r
Title: סליחות ותחנונים מנהג תימן
Title: Seliḥot ṿe-taḥanunim minhag Teman
Incipit: אתחיל לכתוב סליחות ותחנונים לשוכן מעונים

Includes also other piyuṭim, among which are Seder Avodah by Avraham Ibn Ezra and a piyuṭ on the thirteen attributes by Saʿadiah Gaon.

Ff. 86r-87r: index to a portion of the piyuṭim at the end but not in alphabetical order, but in the order of occurence.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: a crescent moon face inside a double-rimmed shield (e.g. ff. 4-5) with the countermark: 'A G' (e.g. f. 3).
Extent: 88 folios (ii+88+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 164 mm.
Dimensions (written): 187 × 134 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe.

Collation

11 quires: i-vi8, vii6, viii-x8, xi8+1.

Catchword in every verso and in some of the rectos.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, mould, ink stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 88 - glued onto back flyleaf (i) - is a smaller, blue leaf at the end of the collation; containing a liturgical piece beginning with: קמתי ותדד שנתי להיות כפרה שואל בעדי ובעד ביתי. Probably written by the same hand.

Binding

Brown leather binding, with blue marble paper pastedowns. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '663 סליחות ותחנונים תימן ...'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 663; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10658 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Funding of Cataloguing

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