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Or 12319

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032-003410044
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Or 12319
Title:
Tiklal
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
137 folios (iii+138+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12319 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Wanneh, Isaac ben Abraham, fl 17th century
Wanneh, Isaac ben Abraham, fl 17th century
Yaḥya Bashiri
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Or 12319

Tiklal

Contents

Yemenite prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1v-138v
Title: תכלאל
Title: Tiklal

Parts of the text are accompanied with a Judeo-Arabic translation.

There are many additional passages in the margins, headed 'perush' or 'hagahah', etc. consisting mainly of extracts from Talmud, midrash and codes.

Incomplete at the end.

Gaster number is given incorrectly as '1008' on f. 1r. The content of the manuscript corresponds the description of no. 1009 (Gaster 1008 is Or 9945).

Colophon:
ff. 1v-24v
Title: Service for weekdays
ff. 25r-46v
Title: Service for Sabbath

Ff. 36v-42v: Pirḳe Avot with long Hebrew commentary.

ff. 46v-49r
Title: Service for the New Moon
ff. 49r-85v
Title: Service for Passover, Shavuot and fastdays

Ff. 49v-64v: Hagadah with Arabic commentary, which is predominantly a compilation from those of Isaac Wanneh and Yaḥya Bashiri.

Ff. 70r-74r: Azharot by Solomon ibn Gabirol.

ff. 86r-131v
Title: Service for New Year and the Day of Atonement

Ff. 86-87 are in a different hand and substantially duplicate the text.

Including Keter Malkhut by Solomon ibn Gabirol (ff. 115r).

ff. 131v-138v
Title: Service for Tabernacles

Incomplete at the end.

Accession note is on f. 108r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish Oriental paper.
Extent: 137 folios (iii+138+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 214 mm.
Dimensions (written): 255 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, dirt.

Layout

Columns:1 4

Written lines: 32 34

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square script of the 18th century; superlinear vocalisation.

Decoration

Initial words with simple ink decorations (e.g. ff. 25r, 36v, 46v, 115r).

Additions:

F. 1r: notes on ritual slaughter and on the liturgy.

Binding

BL in-house, Islamic flap binding.

Title on spine: 'Yemenite Litugry. Hebrew. British Library. OR. MS. 12319'.

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (iv)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (iv)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (v)r.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

According to M. Gaster's handlist it was 'bought of Miss Lowy'. See also no. 1008 in Gaster's handlist: 'the whole from library of Dr A. Lowy (bought of Miss Lowy)'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1009; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 28 September 1931.

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

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