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Add MS 17867

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Add MS 17867
Title:
Sidur, Ashkenazi rite
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
198 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1720
End Date:
1720
Date Range:
1720
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Ya῾aḳov ben Rafael of Hechingen
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17867

Sidur, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

A daily prayer book according to the Ashkenazi rite, with a number of poetical pieces.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-198v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור
Incipit: נכתב תחת ממשלת אדונינו הקיסר המיוחס מאד האדיר והחסיד קאראלוס הששי ירים . הודו ותנשא מלכותו . וה' יתן בלבו לעשות עמנו ועם אחינו ב"י היושבים תחת ממשלתו . בימיו ובימינו תושע יהודה וישראל ישכון לבטח איש תחת גפנו ואיש תחת תאנתו . אמן כן יהי רצון. תחזינה עינינו בשובך לציון ברחמים לפרט קטן פה ווינה. f. 1r

f. 1r, 84v, 136r 3 illustrated title-pages, in black and gold.

f. 1v, 2r, 3r, 6r, 7r, 10r, 15r, 37r, 41r, 46r, 65r, 66v, 151r, 151v 14 initial-word panels in gold and black.

Numerous initial words in gold. f. 61r, 61v, 73v, 74v, 83r etc.

Numerous running titles enclosed in a design, in gold.

ff. 1r-198r

f. 84r 1 heraldic device, with an inscription of Ya῾aḳov ben Rafael of Hechingen, dated [5]562 (1802).

f. 135v 1 drawing of two lions, in black ink.

f. 41v 1 diagram of 9 circles, with text enclosed, in gold.

ff. 1v-31r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 31r-47v
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 47v-65r
Title: Festival services

Halel, folio 47v; musaf le-rosh ḥodesh, folio 49r; musaf le-Shabat ve-rosh ḥodesh, folio 50r; le-shalosh regalim, folio 50v; Pirḳe avot, folio 53r; tefilot le-Rosh ha-shanah ve-Yom kipur, folio 56r; seder hosh῾anot, folio 60r.

ff. 65r-85r
Title: Poetical services

Ma῾ariv lel rishon de-Pesaḥ, folio 65r; ma῾ariv lel sheni shel Pesaḥ, folio 66v; ma῾aravit shevi῾i shel Pesaḥ, folio 69r; ma῾ariv lel aḥaron shel Pesaḥ, folio 71r; ma῾ariv lel aḥaron shel Pesaḥ, folio 72v; ma῾ariv shel lel rishon de-Shavu῾ot, folio 73v; ma῾ariv lel sheni shel ḥag ha-Shavu῾ot, folio 74v; ma῾ariv lel rishon shel ḥag ha-Sukot, folio 77v; ma῾ariv lel sheni shel Sukot, folio 79r; ma῾ariv le-shemini ῾atseret, folio 81r; ma῾ariv le-Simḥat Torah, folio 83r.

ff. 85r-135v
Title: Yotsrot

For the whole liturgical year, according to the Ashkenazi rite.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 10456, II, IV-VII, X.
ff. 136r-151v
Title: Seder seliḥot
ff. 152r-192r
Title: Tehilim
ff. 192r-198v
Title: Tefilat ‘erev rosh ḥodesh

Preceded by a direction in Yiddish.

Folio 198r is an index of the contents of the manuscript, arranged according to the sequence of the pages.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 198 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 285 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 35

Written lines: 25 35

Uniform layout.

Visible vertical hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side indistinguishable.

Running titles decorated with a simple design in black and golden ink.

The text on each page is enclosed in a frame, in golden ink.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Amsterdam square font, punctuated, of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Red morocco leather, gold tooled. Boxed.

Spine: 'J.K. תפילה. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 17,867.'

History

Origin: 1720 Austria (Vienna)

Provenance and Acquisition

1849-08-18

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 18 August 1849: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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. 651.

Funding of Cataloguing

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