Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Penitential prayers for the intermediate nights of Rosh ha-Shanah and for the two nights of the festival, probably according to a North African rite.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19789
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19789
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Africa, N.Egypt

Summary

Penitential prayers for the intermediate nights of Rosh ha-Shanah and for the two nights of the festival, probably according to a North African rite.

Notes

• Stained.
   

Extent

160 folios; 160 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Selichoth. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,789.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 22 23; written lines: 22 23; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger square characters. Catchwords on every page.

Script

Oriental (North African) semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [161v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19789: Penitential prayers for the intermediate nights of Rosh ha-Shanah and for the two nights of the festival, probably according to a North African rite. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 19789: Penitential prayers for the intermediate nights of Rosh ha-Shanah and for the two nights of the festival, probably according to a North African rite.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode