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

Title

Piyuṭim (פיוטים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2534
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2534
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Syria

Summary

A collection of Karaite piyuṭim.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacunae after folios 8, 18, 66, 75, 116, 136.
   
• Folios 116-143 are later additions.
   

Extent

143 folios; 143 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BL/BM in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Piyutim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2534.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15 22; written lines: 15 22; Uniform layout. Titles of particular pieces are written in larger square characters. Catchwords are given on most of the versos.

Script

Oriental (Karaite) semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

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 [144v].
   

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. 1r — Piyuṭim for Pesaḥ
• fol. 8r — Piyuṭim for Shavu῾ot with the Ten Commandments
• fol. 18r — Piyuṭim for Sukot
• fol. 20v — Piyuṭim for Purim
• fol. 34v — Various piyuṭim
• fol. 66r — Marriage piyuṭim
• fol. 85r — Services for berit milah
• fol. 96r — Miscellaneous pieces
• fol. 116r — Appendices