MS. Laud Or. 182
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
Tefilot u-veḳashot (Prayers)
Includes inter alia, a prayer beginning בשם הʹ אלהי ישראל (fol. 8v, Davidson, Thesaurus 1845ב), a list of signs of the zodiac and angels ruling over the days of the week(fol. 255v), prayers for travellers including two attributed to Nahmanides, one of them on his journey to Palestine (fol. 259r). On fol. 254v, בקשה, בנויה על שבעים ושנים שמות ...מתפלתו של רʹ נחוניה ז"ל begining ואתה הוא ושנותיך יחיד attributed by Davidson (Thesaurus 85ו) to the 18th-century scholar Ḥ J. D. Azulai! אלהי רוממתני (fol.255r) attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol.
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Hand(s)
Italian square script, fols. 249r, 251r-260r: Italian (semi)-cursive script by the same hand.
Decoration
Not decorated.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, repaired in the past.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owner's inscription on fol. ii v: "Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepi[scopi] Cantuar[iensis] et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxon[iensis] 1635"
Donated to the Library by Archbishop William Laud (see Summary Catalogue, vol.II, part 1, pp.13-14).
Record Sources
Availability
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