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

Title

Sidur (סידור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2530
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2530
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Jerusalem

Summary

A volume belonging to a series of Karaite service-books, which have been originally deposited in the Karaite Synagogue in Jerusalem.

Notes

• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folio 10, 14, 102, 104, 109, 136, 176, 358.
   
• Several leaves are more or less damaged.
   
• User's notes: folio 3r (upper left-hand margin): Shemu᾿el Leṿi ben Avraham ha-Leṿi: inscribed, dated (5)452 ( 1692); folio 359v: Avraham ben Shemu᾿el ha-Leṿi; Yitsḥaḳ ha-Leṿi, and another one partially illegible.
   

Extent

359 folios; 359 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Karaite Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2530.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 21; Section titles written in larger square characters. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Oriental square and semi-cursive script of the 16th to 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 08 July 1882; inscribed, folio [ 360v].
   

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. 83r — Services for the Sabbath
• fol. 103r — Services for Teru῾ah
• fol. 115r — Services for Sukot
• fol. 196v — A series of services for fast days and Purim
• fol. 329r — An office used at marriages (a fragment)
• fol. 333r — Services for rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 359r — Services for Pesaḥ