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Title

Mavo (מבוא)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2536
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2536
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

SyriaDamascus

Summary

An introduction to Karaite ritual according to the use of Damascus, containing a series of liturgical directions, followed by the tracts on the accents, Hebrew grammar etc.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacuna after folios 16, 33, 49, 78, 81, 82, 85, 87, 113 ,116.
   
• Several leaves more or less damaged.
   
• An entry with the date 5525 (1765) as the time when the manuscript to which this page belonged originally was finished, folio 124r.
   
• Yedidyah Shelomoh Nasi ben Amtsiyahu Yosef Nasi: inscribed in an owner's entry, folio 17r.
   
• Shelomoh ben Eliyahu Ḥazan: inscribed, folio 122v.
   
• A note on the number of persons to be called up at the reading of the Torah, folio 17v.
   
• An English description of the manuscript in pencil, in a modern hand: folio [iii verso].
   

Extent

126 folios; 126 folios

Foliation

Contains later Arabic foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Karaite Ritual. Heb. & Arab. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2536.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 23 25; written lines: 23 25; Non-uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Some parts of text highlighted in red ink (folios 118-122 of the appended part). Catchwords on every verso in most parts of the manuscript.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of the late 17th century. Daniel ben Mosheh ha-Melamed ben Yesh῾ayah Firuz: inscribed, folio 1r & 81r.

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 [128v]).
   

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. 5r — Introduction to the Pentateuch lections Lists of lections
• fol. 18r — On pericope Ha᾿azinu
• fol. 20r — Readings from the Torah
• fol. 22r — Series of Scripture verses
• fol. 28v — Piyuṭ
• fol. 30v — Introductory verses
• fol. 31v — Series of biblical verses for Megilat Purim
• fol. 34r — For the month of Av
• fol. 38v — Tokhaḥot
• fol. 40v — Special funeral offices
• fol. 47r — Prayers for the dying
• fol. 50r — On mid-day prayers on Sabbath-days
• fol. 57r — Propitiatory prayers
• fol. 65r — Penitential hymns and prayers
• fol. 83r — Benedictions
• fol. 86r — Grammatical section (fragments)
• fol. 92v — Grammatical section
• fol. 98v — Grammatical section
• fol. 101v — On numerals
• fol. 102v — On the authorship of Scripture
• fol. 108v — On chronology
• fol. 111r — A series of piyuṭim for Sabbath-days and festivals