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MS. Pococke 262

Oriental Manuscripts Pococke Collection

Contents

Sidur of R. Shlomoh Sig'ilmasah

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Shelomoh ben Natan, av bet din min ha-ʻir Sig'ilmasah, active 12th centuryשלמה בן נתן‏, Sidur of R. Shlomoh Sig'ilmasah סדור ר’ שלמה סג’למסה

Minhagim in Arabic, containing 30 chapters.

Colophon: Colophon on fol. XXX 223v?? by Saadiah bar Yehudah bar Evyatar at Kaleah Barka for his son, Amraan; dated 1514 SE (1203 CE)
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ff. 270

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script.

History

Origin: Barca (Lybia); 1202

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscritpions on fol. XXX: XXX

Edward Pococke's collection of oriental MSS (mostly Armenian, Hebrew and Arabic) was purchased by the Library for £800 in 1692 (see Summary Catalogue, vol. II, p. 1008).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 896, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 896, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 21855

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1239.
    ש’ צוקר וא’ ווסט, מוצאו המזרחי של סידור ר’ שלמה בר’ נתן וייחוסו המוטעה לצפון אפריקה, קרית ספר סד, ב (תשנ"ב-תשנ"ג), עמ’ 737-746
    Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 1239.
    חגית שמואל (עורך), סידור רבינו שלמה ברבי נתן (ירושלים : ש’ חגי, תשנ"ה)
    B. M. Outhwaite and S. Bhayro (eds), ‘From a sacred source’: Genizah studies in honour of Professor Stefan C. Reif (Cambridge Genizah Studies 1; Brill, Leiden 2010),
    Langer, Ruth, Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 343, n21.

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