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Title

A festival prayer book for Yom Kipur and a Karaite daily prayer book (fragments).

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1426
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1426
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A festival prayer book for Yom Kipur and a Karaite daily prayer book (fragments).

Notes

• Usage and damp stains.
   
• Corroding ink.
   

Extent

180 folios; 180 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Selichoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1426.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 31; written lines: 21 31; Non-uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso, only in the latter part (folios 142r-180v). Initial words in square characters. Partially punctuated (folios 1r-141v). Some marginal additions. Some leaves oversized and folded.

Script

Sefardi (Provencal) semi-cursive script of the 17th century, punctuated, and Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of 16th to 18th century.

Provenance

• Ya῾aḳov Eshpeyer (?) of Prague
   
• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1877: inscribed (folio [182v]).
   

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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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — מחזור מנהג קרפנטרס לימים נוראים
• fol. 1r — Maḥzor minhag Ḳarpentras le-Yamim Nora᾿im
• fol. 142r — סדור מנהג קראים
• fol. 142r — Sidur minhag Ḳara᾿im