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Add MS 26968
Title:
Sidur, Italian rite ('Forli Sidur')
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Oriental Manuscripts
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342 folios
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1383
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1383
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1383
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Names:
Avraham ben Shelomoh
Daniyel ben Shemuel ha-Rofe
D’Angelo Levi quem Amadeo di Lodovo
Giuseppe Almanzi
Hippolite of Ferrara
Laurentius Franguellus
Mosheh ben Yeḳutiel Ḥefets Tsifroni
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Add MS 26968

Sidur, Italian rite ('Forli Sidur')

Contents

A prayer book ('Forli Sidur') for the entire year, according to the Italian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-343v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

32 marginal illustrations in colours. f. 167v, 168r, 207r, 207v, 209v, 210r, 238r, 244r, 248, 251v, 253r, 290r, 298v, 301r, 303v, 304r, 304v, 305r, 305v, 306r, 306v, 307r, 307v, 308r, 308v, 316v, 325v, 326r, 329v, 338v, 339r, 339v, 340r

1 full-page miniature of a coat of arms. f. 340v

Numerous partial foliate borders inhabited by birds and animals, in colours. f. 205v

4 initial-word panels accompanied by animals and hybrids. f. 262v, 270v, 271r, 271v

1 initial-word panel included into a depiction of a sukkah. f. 295r

6 marginal illustrations of coats of arms. f. 230r, 259v, 294v, 324r, 325r, 336r

Maniculae. f. 153r, 154r, 212v, 305v, 324r

12 added textual illustrations in panels in the margins in colours and gold, added in the 15th century. f. 101r, 110v, 111v, 112r, 112v, 118r, 118v, 119r, 119v, 139v, 145r

Numerous decorated initial-word panels with elaborated pen-flourishing in the margin, in red and blue ink (until f. 163r), added in the 15th century. f. 163r

Colophon: נשלם סדר תפילות כל השנה בעזרת שוכן מעונה על ידי משה בכמ"ר יקותיאל חפץ ממשפחת הצפרוני וכתבתיו לכמ"ר דניאל מו"ח בכמ"ר שמואל הרופאיש"ר בכמ"ר דניאל זלה"ה דיי"ן והשלמתיו בראש חדש שבט שנת קמ"ג לפרט לאלף הששי פה בעיר פורליה יושבת בגליל רומאנייא ה' יזכיהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות. ויקיים עליו מקרא דכתיב לא ימוש ספר התורה הזה מפיך והגית בו יומם ולילה למען תשמור לעשות ככל הכתוב בו כי אז תצליח את דרכיך ואז תשכיל אמן וחלק המחוקק יהיה ספון עם מצדיקי הרבים ככוכבים לעולם ועד. אמן כבודך השם. f. 323v
ff. 1r-46v
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 46v-91v
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 91v-107r
Title: Berakhot se῾udah
ff. 107r-137v
Title: ῾Inyan Pesaḥ
ff. 137v-144v
Title: Poetical pieces
ff. 145r-157v
Title: Masekhet avot
ff. 157v-167r
Title: Seder ῾inyan Shavu῾ot
ff. 167r-230v
Title: ῾Inyan ta῾aniyot
ff. 230v-259v
Title: Seder ῾inyan Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 259v-295r
Title: Seder ῾inyan Yom Kipur
ff. 295r-317r
Title: ῾Inyan ḥag Sukot
ff. 317r-324v
Title: ῾Inyan Shemini ῾atseret
ff. 324v-329v
Title: ῾Eruvin
ff. 329v-336v
Title: Poetical pieces
ff. 336v-339v
Title: Seder ḥatanim u-birkat erusin
ff. 339v-342r
Title: Additional pieces

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 342 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90/85 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

342 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

35 quires: i-ii10(ff. 1-20), iii12(ff. 21-32), iv-xvii10(folios 33-172), xviii8(ff. 173-180), xix8-1(ff. 181-187), xx-xxxiv10(ff. 188-337), xxxv8(ff. 338-343), after f. 342 - 2 unfoliated leaves.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Catchwords (decorated) at the end of the quires.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning, and there is a gap after f.152.

Erased text (f. 26v).

Ruling by hard point (bifolium by bifolium) and pricking (in outer margins only) are visible.

Hand(s)

Italian square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Mosheh ben Yeḳutiel Ḥefets Tsifroni: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Forli, [5]143 [1383] (f. 323v); probably his arms (f. 259v, 325).

Additions:

12 illustrations were added in 2nd or 3rd quarter of the fifteenth century, produced in Veneto, Italy.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,968.'

History

Origin: 1383 1383 and 2nd-3rd quarter of the 15th century Italy, C. (Romagna, Forli) and Italy, N. (Veneto)

Provenance and Acquisition

Daniyel ben Shemuel ha-Rofe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Forli, 1 Shvat [5]143 [1393] (folio 323v); his arms (ff. 230r, 294v, 336r, 340v); three other manuscripts are linked to the same person: British Library, Or 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Bezalel Narkiss, Kitve-Yad ʿIvriyim Metsuyarim / Me-et Betsalʾel Narḳis; Mavo Me-et Sesil Rot; [ʿIvrit, Daliyah Shaḥaḳ; ʿarikhah, Daliyah Ṭesler]. Mahad. ʿIvrit ḥadashah u-Metuḳenet. Yerushalayim: Keter, 1984.

Avraham ben Shelomoh: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible, Bologna, [5]193 [1433] (f. 343v).

Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (f. 342r); see [Popper_1969] 78, appendix § 105-110.

Note of birth: inscribed [5]349 [1589] (f. 342v).

Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan censor (active 1590-1609, in Cremona?): inscribed with his name (f. 343v); see [Popper_1969] 18-19, 93.

D’Angelo Levi quem Amadeo di Lodovo: inscribed with his name in Latin characters, undated (f. 1r).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 79: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 616.
    אלמנצי, יוסף, and Giuseppe Almanzi. Yad Yosef: ... Ṿe-Hi Reshimat Sifre Ha-Bibliʾoṭeḳ / ... Asaf Ṿe-Ḳibets ... Yosef Almantsi Melekhet Yedido Shemuʾel Daṿid Lutsaṭo. (Padoue, 1864), p. 16.
    Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 367a).
    Hava Lazar, 'Jonah, the Tower, and the Lions: an Eighteenth Century Italian Silver Book Binding', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), pp. 58-73 (pp. 68-69).
    Bezalel Narkiss, Kitvei yad ivriyim metzuyarim (Jerusalem: Keter, 1984), pp. 59, 192 n. 147.
    Bezalel Narkiss, 'Three Jewish Art Patrons in Mediaeval Italy', in Festschrift Reuben R. Hecht (Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd., 1984), pp. 296-307 (pp. 302-05).
    Mortara Luisa Ottolenghi, “Manoscritti Emiliagno-Romagnoli del XIV-XV secolo. Un punto d’Incontro tra miniatori cristiani ed ebrei?” in Atti del terzo convegno tenuto a Idice, Bologna, nei giorni 9-11 novembre 1982 Associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo. Convegno (3rd: 1982: Idice, Italy), (Roma: Carucci, 1985), pp. 103-13 (pp. 109-110).
    Louisella Mortara-Ottolenghi, 'The Illuminations and the Artists', in The Rothschild Miscellany (Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1989), p. 173, n. 14.
    Mendel Metzger, 'Two Centuries (13th-14th) of Hebrew Manuscript Ilumination in Italy', in Die Juden in ihrer Mittelalterlichen Umwelt eds. by Alfred Ebenbauer and Klaus Zatloukal (Vienna: Böhnlau Verlag, 1991), pp. 131-50 (pp. 134 and 141).
    The´re`se and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
    David Goldstein, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (London: The British Library, 1985), pp. 54-55.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 74.
    Bracha Yaniv, Ma'aseh Roqem: Textile Ceremonial Objects in the Ashkenazi Sephardi and Italian Synagogues (Jerusalem: Makhon Ben Tzvi, 2009), pp. 30-32.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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