Cairo Genizah : Liturgy

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>A bifolium of Saʿadya's Siddur. Leaf 1 has the piyyuṭ by Saʿadya on the 613 commandments (miṣvot), which is read on Šavuʿot, the extant text extending from the first commandment (את ייי) to ש. The page ends after כי מצות הגוף. This corresponds to pp. 157-60 in Davidson et al (1963). See Reif (1997: no. 405). The end of each commandment is marked by a circle with a dot in the centre. Leaf 2 is Roš ha-Šana, corresponding to pp. 217-18. The original manuscript is artfully written and laid out. A few vowel signs appear to have been added in the original ink, in one case correcting a reading לזקנַים (i.e. לזקנַי, f. 1r line 4). Other vowel signs and a few corrections are made in a different ink. F. 2v appears to be the last page of the (original) quire, as there is probably a faded quire catchword at the bottom of the leaf and also a note, in a different hand, in the lower margin: צח לה אלכראסה, suggesting that the quire has been checked for accuracy.</p>