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

Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2390
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2390
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A service book according to the Yemenite rite.

Notes

• Lacuna after folio 52.
   
• Folios 113-118 originally belonged to another manuscript of about the same date.
   
• Folios 111, 112, 119-124 are a recent addition.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• Maimon ben Se῾adya᾿ ben Mosheh Al-Musa᾿i (patron): inscribed, folio 110v.
   
• Folios 111-112: a calendar for the 286th and 287th cycle, followed by the series of prognostications based on the date of the teḳufot.
   
• Folios 113-118: originally a part of another manuscript: several poetical pieces and additional blessings.
   
• Folios 119r-123r: originally belonging to a different manuscript of approximately 18th century: additional prayers.
   
• Folios 122v-123r: tiḳunim.
   
• Folios 123v-124r: a table with a 292th cycle.
   
• Folio 2r: partly illegible piece similar to Kol nidre.
   
• Folio 2v: a poetical piece.
   
• Folio 3r: three additional prayers.
   
• Folio 4r: an additional prayer and the beginning of Kol nidre.
   
• Zekhariah ben Daṿid: inscribed with his name in a note, folio 1v.
   
• Avraham ben Shalom: inscribed, folio 2r.
   
• Folio 124r: two records of sale, dated 1797 and 1811 respectively.
   

Extent

124 folios; 124 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2390.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Leaf catchwords on every verso. Numerous marginal notes and additions.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 17th century.

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. 4v — Services for week-days
• fol. 15r — Services for Sabbath
• fol. 25v — Services for rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 27r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 35r — Tefilat ḥag Shavu῾ot
• fol. 35v — Tefilat ta῾aniyot
• fol. 36v — Services for Tish῾ah be-av
• fol. 43r — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 46r — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 48v — Tefilat ḥag Sukot
• fol. 53r — Services for Purim
• fol. 55r — Seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
• fol. 63v — Seliḥot le-el raḥamim
• fol. 82r — Seder ῾avodah
• fol. 85r — Berakhot
• fol. 93v — ῾Ibur ha-shanim
• fol. 102v — Nusaḥ ha-ketubot, ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
• fol. 106v — Liturgical pieces