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Add MS 18692

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Add MS 18692
Title:
Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
287 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18692 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1478
End Date:
1478
Date Range:
1478
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Avraham Farissol
Dominico Irosolomitano
Fr. Hippolytus
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Joseph Bonaventura da Vigevano
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18692

Sidur

Contents

A daily prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-287v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
Colophon: הנותן ליעף כח ולאין אונים עצמה ירבה הוא יוסיף לעזור את אברהם פריצול חזן ק'ק' פירארא אשר השלים הסדור השלם הלז לר' יוסף הנקר' בונאוינטורא מוייוינו מקרימונא בי"ד ימים לנסן ר'ל'ח'השם יזכהו להגות בזה ובאשר כתבתי הקדש אמן סלה בריך רחמנא דסייען. f. 200r

f. 1r, 79r Full foliate borders, in red.

Many half-borders with pen-flourishings, in red ink. f. 3v, 4v, 6r, 6v, 11v, 14r, 16r, 17r, 17v, 18r, 20r, 21v, 22r, 23r, 23v, 25r, 26r etc.

Numerous decorated initial words and initial-word panels, in red ink. f. 3v, 4v, 6r, 6v, 11v, 14r, 16r, 17r, 17v, 18r, 20r, 21v, 22r, 23r, 23v, 25r, 26r etc.

ff. 1r-41r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 41r-79r
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 79r-87v
Title: Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim, Hanukah, etc.
ff. 87v-118r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Piyutim at the end of Hagadah are the same as in Add MS 26,968.

The shevaḥot for the three festivals begin on folio 113r.

ff. 118r-125r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 125r-147v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 147v-176v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
ff. 176v-201r
Title: Services for Sukot

Hosh῾anot, cf Add. 26968, 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..

ff. 201r-255v
Title: A collection of yotserot
ff. 255v-287v
Title: Additional pieces

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 287 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 65 mm.
Foliation:

287 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated vellum flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated vellum flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Images of the head, tail, and fore-edge will display as f.viii-r, f.viii-v and f.ix-r respectively.

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

Visible plummet ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Italian square script of the 15th century. Partially punctuated. Avraham Farissol of Ferrara: inscribed with his name in the colophon (folio 200r).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 18,692.'

History

Origin: 1478 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Bonaventura da Vigevano: inscribed in the colophon (folio 200r).

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1620 (folio 286v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 287r); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Fr. Hippolytus, Italian censor: inscribed with his name, 1601 (folio 287r).

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased from him on 24 May 1851: inscribed, [288v].

1851-05-24

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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Surrogates

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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. 621.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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