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Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2227
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2227
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

YemenSan῾a

Summary

A service book according to the Yemenite rite.

Notes

• Most of leaves partly damaged (lower margin).
   
• Stained.
   
• Se῾adyah ben Yehudah Al-Ladani: inscribed in the colophon, folio 248r.
   
• Two records of birth, dated 1828 (1517) and 1833 (1522) respectively, in the main scribe's handwriting, folio 248r (below the colophon).
   
• A record of transfer of the manuscript between the owners, Se῾adyah ben Yehudah Al-Ladani and Se῾adyah ben Mantsur Al-Ḥawidi, dated 1544, folio 248r.
   
• Folio 1 and 249 contain portions of Leviticus XIV and XV, Hebrew text with Targum to each verse, both leaves are mutilated.
   
• Folio 2 (vellum) contain Genesis 29:27-30:10, Hebrew text with Targum to each verse, both provided with the superlinear punctuation.
   

Extent

249 folios; 249 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2227.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 29; Uniform layout. Visible leaf by leaf hard-point ruling. The last line of text written outside ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Pen and ink decorated diagonal leaf catchwords on every verso. Some marginal notes and additions.

Script

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of the 16th century. Avigad ben Daṿid Al-Nisakh: inscribed, folio 248r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 10 April 1880: inscribed, folio [250v] (fse001v).
   

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. 3v — Services for week-days
• fol. 24r — Services for Sabbath and other festivals
• fol. 33v — Series of directions
• fol. 96v — Masekhet avot
• fol. 103v — A series of seliḥot
• fol. 169v — Azkirah seder ῾avodah
• fol. 182r — Nusaḥ ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
• fol. 188v — Ḥasab al-῾ibur
• fol. 205r — A series of ḳinot for Tish῾ah be-Av
• fol. 212v — Mispedot
• fol. 216v — Tokhaḥot u-vaḳashot
• fol. 224v — The book of Lamentations
• fol. 233r — The book of Esther