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Add MS 27208

Record Id:
032-003368410
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Add MS 27208
Title:
Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
299 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27208 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Judah ben Samuel he-Ḥasid
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27208

Sidur

Contents

A daily prayer book according to the German rite, with a commentary.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-299v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The accompanying commentary is mostly based on the writings of Judah ben Samuel he-Ḥasid. The volume includes Avot with a commentary which agrees in the main with that contained in Add MS 27201 (i.e. Maḥzor Viṭry).

f. 1r, 13r 2 decorated initial-word panels with pen flourishing, in colours.

f. 96v, 97r, 149r 3 pen-decorated frames with initial words.

ff. 1r-83r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 83r-123v
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 123v-136r
Title: Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh etc.

Includes portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim, Ḥanukah, Tish῾ah be-Av, followed by haṭavat ḥalom.

ff. 136r-147v
Title: Prayers for shalosh regalim
ff. 147v-177v
Title: Seder Pesaḥ

The Psalms of the Halel in the Hagadah (folio 166r sqq.) are accompanied by David Kimḥi's commentary.

ff. 177v-227v
Title: Avot
Filiation: Cf the commentary contained in Add MS 27201 (Maḥzor Viṭry).
ff. 227v-264r
Title: Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur
ff. 264r-286r
Title: Hosh῾anot

The commentary on the Hosh῾anot agrees with that contained in Add MS 27556 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 653).

ff. 286r-299v
Title: Prayers and readings for yamim ṭovim

The commentary includes a portion of dinim taken from Ṭur oraḥ ḥayim of Jacob ben Asher.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 299 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 86 × 63 mm.
Dimensions (written): 80 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

299 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end (nearly entirely cut away).

Condition

Ink considerably worn off (roughly retouched on folios 1-14).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 15 25

Written lines: 14 24

Uniform layout, with varying number of lines in the margin.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words are written in larger characters. Some initial words are highlighted in red ink (see folios 2r, 3r, 55r, 56r, 57r, 98r, etc.).

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Most of the margins are occupied with the commentary. The margin left by the scribe for commentary has on some pages been left blank.

Parts of the main text are written in red ink, see e.g. folios 168v, 172v, 177r, etc.

The commentary in the margin takes various geometrical and decorative shapes, see e.g. folios 99v, 103v, 109v, 125v, 137v, 161v, etc.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Tephilloth. German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,208.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 323: 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 (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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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. 654.

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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