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Add MS 18691

Record Id:
032-003367043
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Add MS 18691
Title:
Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
278 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18691 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18691

Sidur

Contents

A daily prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-278v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
ff. 2r-43r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 43r-81r
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 81r-96r
Title: Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh
ff. 96r-133r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Poetical pieces after the Hagadah are the same as in Add MS 26968, with one new addition.

ff. 133r-155r
Title: Pirḳe avot
ff. 155r-160v
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 160v-185r
Title: Special portions for Ta῾anit and Tish῾ah be-Av
ff. 185r-207v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 207v-226v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ṿiduy, folio 223v.

ff. 226v-262r
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. 262r-272v
Title: ῾Inyan ta῾anit

Includes a series of seliḥot.

ff. 272v-278v
Title: Additional pieces

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 278 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 65 mm.
Foliation:

278 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each.

Condition

Lacuna after folio 154.

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 and semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century. Partially punctuated.

Additions:

A note of ownership of the Supino family (Mishpaḥat bet ha-ne῾arim Supino): folio 1v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Siddur. Daily prayers. Italian Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 18,691.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

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, [279v].

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18691 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 619.

Funding of Cataloguing

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