MS. Pococke 262
Oriental Manuscripts Pococke Collection
Contents
Sidur of R. Shlomoh Sig'ilmasah
ff. 1r-270r
, 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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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.