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

Title

Piyuṭim (פיוטים)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4114
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4114
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A collection of liturgical poems, Yemenite rite.

Notes

• Defective at the end.
   
• Folio 1r: an explanation of the term 'diwan'.
   
• Folios 229v-230r: a subscription of the scribe.
   

Extent

230 folios; 230 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Divan of Shalom ben Joseph Shabeze. Hebrew & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 4114.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 27 38; written lines: 27 38; Uniform layout. Visible vertical hard-point ruling. Initial words and titles written in larger characters and highlighted in red ink. Running titles and section enumeration highlighted in red ink. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Yemenite semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 17th to 18th century. Yosef ben Se῾id: inscribed, folio 229v.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Mrs Wright: purchased from her by the British Library on 14 April 1890: inscribed, folio 230v.
   

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. 4r — Nashod
• fol. 67r — Shirot
• fol. 198r — Zif᾿at
• fol. 206r — ῾Inyan Shabat
• fol. 216r — Nusaḥ birkat nisu᾿in u-virkat erusin
• fol. 219v — Nusaḥ birkat va-milah
• fol. 220v — Ḥaduyot
• fol. 223v — Birkat ha-oreaḥ
• fol. 224v — At ben ῾etse ῾eden
• fol. 225r — Mafteaḥ al-nashod