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Add MS 27205
- Record Id:
- 032-003368408
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- Format:
- TEI
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- Add MS 27205
- Title:
- Seliḥot
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 185 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27205 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1179
- End Date:
- 1250
- Date Range:
- 1179-1250
- Calendar:
- Hebrew
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Eliaḳim ben Ya῾aḳov Meshulam ha-Kohen
Giuseppe Almanzi
Menaḥem ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen
Menaḥem ben Uri
Mosheh ha-Leṿi
Uri bar Ya῾aḳov ha-Kohen - TEI:
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Add MS 27205
Seliḥot
Contents
A daily prayer book with seliḥot (i.e. propitiatory prayers), Ashkenazi rite.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-185vTitle: SeliḥotTitle: סליחותThe seliḥot are divided into two sections, folios 17v-119v contain pieces numbered 1-82 and folios 119v-174v contain pieces numbered 1-50.
Folios 175r-184v contain a calendar of Sabbaths, festivals, fasts etc., and their respective lections from the Pentateuch, with occasional lections from the Prophets. The first page contains a list of maḥzorim (cycles), from 261 to 273, accompanied by their respective rows of mnemonic letters. On folio 175v begins the list of lessons under the heading 'seder parashiyot shel kol shanah.' The date of the manuscript can be deduced from the calendar. The table of cycles begins with 261, so the earliest date the manuscript can be assumed to have been written was the last or nineteenth year of the cycle 260, which was 4939-4940 (1179-1180).
The contents of the later portions are as follows: folios 1-12 contain a series of seliḥot, folios 109-118 contain seliḥot numbered 1-81. Folios 119 to 174 contains pizmonim. The appended leaf (folio 185), written in two columns a page contains Jeremiah 1:37-51:24, with no vowels or accents. At the bottom of folio 186r there is a figure of a running dog, in crayon.
There are some marginal notes containing liturgical directions, variant readings, etc.
At the end of 12v is an index of the pieces contained in the first 12 leaves. Folio 13r contains some other lists, apportioning certain pieces to diverse occasions.
Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 12th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 185 foliosDimensions (leaf): 215 × 145 mm.Dimensions (written): 155 × 95 mm.Foliation:185 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
Quires of 8 leaves each, marked with decorated catchwords at the end.
Condition
Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
Margins too closely cut.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 20
Written lines: 19
Uniform layout.
Pricking (in outer margins only) and hard-point ruling (bifolium by bifolium) is visible.
Initial words written in larger characters.
Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios hardly distinguishable.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 12th century.
ff. 109r-118vandff. 1r-12v- written in a later hand.Additions:Folios 1-12 and 109-118: insertions of probably the 14th century.
Folio 185: probably of the 11th or 12th century, Sefardi origin.
Folios 179-180: a palimpsest, the underlying text being that of a Latin manuscript of the 10th century, apparently containing ecclesiastical canons.
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Selichoth. german Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,205.'
History
Origin: 1179-1250 GermanyProvenance and Acquisition
Mosheh ha-Leṿi: inscribed in a half-erased entry, folio 1r.
Uri bar Ya῾aḳov ha-Kohen: inscribed at the bottom of folio 1v.
Menaḥem ben Uri and Menaḥem ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen: inscribed in the margin of folio 1v.
Eliaḳim ben Ya῾aḳov Meshulam ha-Kohen: inscribed, folio 4v.
1865
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 319; 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, 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27205 (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. 677.Bibliography
[Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).Funding of Cataloguing
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