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Or 11123

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Or 11123
Title:
Diṿan, piyuṭim ṿe-shirim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
114 folios (ii+114+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Or 11123

Diṿan, piyuṭim ṿe-shirim

Contents

A collection of Jewish devotional poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-114v
Title: Diṿan, piyuṭim ṿe-shirim
Title: דיואן, פיוטים ושירים
Incipit: לענין שבת

Includes poems for Sabbath, Havdalah, grooms, poems, nishvud (poems), Hiduyot, and haleluyot.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 114 folios (ii+114+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 78 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 50 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; f. 1 = f. ה.

Collation

13 quires: i-iii8 (ff. 1-8, 9-16, 17-24), iv14 (ff. 25-38), v10 (ff. 39-48), vi4+1 (ff. 49-53), vii8 (ff. 54-61), viii4 (ff. 62-65), ix12 (ff. 66-77), x2 (ff. 78-79), xi16 (ff. 80-95), xii16 (ff. 96-111), xiiithree.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage, slight iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Oblong format.

Uniform layout.

Running title.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

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

Decoration

Initial words with very simple ink decoration (e.g. ff. 7v, 71v).

Additions:

A list of names in Hebrew in pencil on front flyleaf (ii)r and back flyleaf (i)v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Religious Poems. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,123.'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of E. A. Morris. 13 July 1929'; date of accession 31 July 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11123 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), vol. IV. p. 161.

Funding of Cataloguing

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