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

Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 6355
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6355
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Place

Yemen

Summary

A service book, according to the Yemenite rite.

Notes

• Folio 60r: a short form of execration against the enemies of Israel, in pencil.
   

Extent

70 folios; 70 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6355.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 19 20; written lines: 19 20; Uniform layout. Visible mastara ruling. Initial words and titles written in larger characters and highlighted in red ink. Several marginal notes and additions.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Raffalovich and Lifkin: purchased by the British Museum from them on 15 April 1902: inscribed, folio [71v].
   

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. 1r — Services for Sabbath
• fol. 51r — Miscellaneous offices