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Title

A collection of penitential prayers, to be said between the 1st of Elul and the Day of Atonement.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4113
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4113
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A collection of penitential prayers, to be said between the 1st of Elul and the Day of Atonement.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Folios 16v and 17 contain a form of Kidush for Passover, in a different and irregular hand.
   

Extent

17 folios; 17 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Selichoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4113.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 22 25; written lines: 22 25; Uniform layout. Initial words and titles written in larger characters. Running titles.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script, partly punctuated, of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: B. Steinhart: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 May 1890: inscribed, folio [ii recto].
   

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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