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Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2417
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2417
• 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, with the books of Psalms and Proverbs prefixed.

Notes

• Leaves stuck on paper (modern restoration).
   
• Folios damaged at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacuna after folio 95.
   
• Folio 34r: a partly illegible contract of purchase.
   
• Yehudah ben Mosheh ben Se῾adyah ben Avraham ha-Leṿi of San῾a: inscribed, folio 34r and in the colophon, folio 138v.
   

Extent

155 folios; 155 folios

Foliation

Folios 1-33 have a separate Hebrew foliation (from 63 onwards, folios 34-95 being numbered 1-62).

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2417.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 31; written lines: 31; 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 of the 17th century, puctuated. Shalom ben Daṿid ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh ben Ya῾aḳov Al-Ḥag᾿ani: inscribed, folio 138v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: N. Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881: inscribed, folio [157v].
   

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 — Psalms
• fol. 26r — Proverbs
• fol. 34v — Services for week-days
• fol. 42r — Services for the Sabbath
• fol. 50r — Services for rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 51r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 57r — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 61v — Prayer for the fast days
• fol. 62r — Services for Tish῾ah be-av
• fol. 76v — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 79v — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 86r — Services for Sukot
• fol. 93r — Services for Ḥanukah
• fol. 95r — Services for Purim
• fol. 95v — Tseloah almiyat
• fol. 96r — Seliḥot le-lele ashmurot
• fol. 101r — Seliḥot le-el raḥamim
• fol. 119v — Seder ῾avodah
• fol. 123r — Berakhot
• fol. 127v — ῾Ibur ha-shanim
• fol. 132v — Nusaḥ ha-ketubot, ha-giṭin ṿeha-sheṭarot
• fol. 135r — Liturgical pieces
• fol. 139r — Additions