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

Title

A Karaite festival prayer book for Sukot.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1104
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1104
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A Karaite festival prayer book for Sukot.

Notes

• Damp entry at head and foot with tidemarks throughout.
   
• Slight mould spotting.
   
• Small infills to first two leaves.
   
• Usage stains.
   
• A paste-down with catalogue description of the masuscript, in German, folio [ii verso].
   

Extent

266 folios; 266 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed. Spine: 'Service Book For Sukkoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1104.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17 18; written lines: 17 18; Uniform layout. Visible ruling. Catchwords on every verso. Initial words in square characters.

Script

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 16th century, punctuated.

Provenance

• Mikhael Yafet
   
• Ya῾aḳov ben Berakhah Ḳaṭan ben Eliyahu Ḳaṭan Melamed
   
• Yehudah ben Menaḥem
   
• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 September 1872: inscribed (folio [268v]).
   

Related resources

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

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