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

Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2531
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2531
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

SyriaDamascus

Summary

A Karaite service-book according to the rite of Damascus.

Notes

• Defective at the end.
   
• Leaves lost after folio 15, 106, 158, 205, 208, 211, 212, 213, 216.
   
• Four quires missing at the end.
   
• Stained.
   
• Folio 2r is a title page, and folio 3r begins with a dedication.
   
• Folios 219-223 are later additions.
   

Extent

223 folios; 223 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2531.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 20 23; written lines: 20 23; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling. Titles of sections written in larger characters. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the early 18th century. Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed ben Yesh῾ayah Firuz: inscribed, folio 3r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 July 1882: inscribed (folio [224v]).
   

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. 3v — Introduction to the Karaite liturgy
• fol. 16r — Prayers for week-days
• fol. 53r — Services for Sabbath-days
• fol. 99r — Services for rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 113v — Services for the season of Pesaḥ
• fol. 148r — Services for special Sabbaths
• fol. 209r — Appendix