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Title

Karaite service book for the Day of Atonement.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1103
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1103
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Egypt

Summary

Karaite service book for the Day of Atonement.

Notes

• Fading ink.
   
• Damp/mould damage at ends.
   
• Completions of the missing parts in a 19th century hand (folios 179r-185v).
   

Extent

185 folios; 185 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Service Book for the Yom Kippurim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1103.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 25; written lines: 21 25; Uniform layout. Visible ruling with mastara. Catchwords on every verso. Section titles in large square characters.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of approximately 16th century.

Provenance

• Yitsḥaḳ ben Yosef Elisha
   
• Yosef ben Daṿid
   
• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 September 1872, folio [187v].
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — מחזור מנהג קראי ליום כפור
• fol. 1r — Maḥzor minhag kara᾿i le-Yom Kipurim
• fol. 172r — קינות
• fol. 172r — Ḳinot