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

Title

Sidur (סידור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2532
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2532
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Jerusalem

Summary

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

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning.
   
• Lacuna after folio 8.
   
• Many of the extant leaves are more or less damaged.
   
• Previous user's entries, partially illegible: inscribed with a date of 5476 (1716); folio 212v.
   

Extent

212 folios; 212 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Karaite Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2532.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17 22; written lines: 17 22; 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 [214v].
   

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 — [Tsiduḳ ha-din]
• fol. 9r — Service for Yom kipur