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

Title

A Yemenite prayer book.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 4841
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4841
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Summary

A Yemenite prayer book.

Notes

• Damp and mould damage throughout, but losses infilled.
   
• A few older repairs obscure text.
   

Extent

[i]+137+[ii]; [i]+137+[ii]

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Yemenite Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4841.'

Layout

Columns: 1 3; ruled lines: 31 35; written lines: 31 35; Uniform layout. Initial words in large square characters. Catchwords on every verso. Visible mastara ruling. Pen decorated title page (folio1r).

Script

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script, with superlinear punctuation, of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Tsadiḳ ben Shelomoh ben ῾Amram ben Daṿid ha-Leṿi
   
• Yosef ibn Ya῾aḳov Ḥamadi
   
• Acquisition: Morris Heller & Weiss: purchased from him by the British Museum on 14 November 1894: inscribed, flyleaf [iii]v.
   

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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