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Add MS 27029

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032-003368822
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Add MS 27029
Title:
Sidur, Italian rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
182 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1501
End Date:
1501
Date Range:
1501
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Hebrew
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CE
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Names:
Avraham Farissol
Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura
Daṿid Marḳ of Cine bar Avraham
Dominico Irosolimitano
Giuseppe Almanzi
Riḳah
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27029

Sidur, Italian rite

Contents

A daily prayer book, according to the Italian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-182v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

f. 1r 1 decorated initial-word panel and full border, in colours and gold.

1 decorated initial-word panel in gold. f. 14v

1 initial word in gold. f. 5v

Decorated initial words in ink. f. 73v, 86v, 136v

Floral decoration around the text, in ink. f. 9v, 51r, 86v, 141v

Colophon: ונשלם סדור כל השנה. תהלה לשוכן מעונה. וכתבתיו אני דניאל בכמ' יצחק זצ"ל מוינטורא אל היקרה מרת ריקה אחותי מבת. אשת המפואר כמ' אליעזר יצ"ו מרוביקו. והיה השלמתו ביום יום ג' כ"ב יוניא רס"א פה בעיר בולונייא. חזק הכותב ויגל הקורא. f. 140r
Colophon: אני אברהם פריצול י"ץ השלמתי מה שהיה חסר בסדור הלז בתשרי רס"ב לפ"ק פה פירארא אל החשוב כמ' דוד מארק י"ץ מצינע בר' אברהם נ"ע. אברהם את יי' בכל עת. ב'נ'ל'ך'. f. 182r
ff. 1r-35r
Title: Services for week-days

Cf the same beginning as in [BL] Add MS 27072, 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. 622.

ff. 35r-64v
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 64v-73v
Title: Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim etc.
ff. 73v-83v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

There is no Hagadah. The same pieces as in [BL] Add MS 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. 83v-86v
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 86v-102v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 102v-122r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ṿiduyim the same as in [BL] Add MS 18692, 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..

ff. 122r-145v
Title: Services for Sukot

Hosh῾anot, cf [BL] 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. 145v-182v
Title: A collection of poetical pieces

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 182 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 145 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 95/90 × 60/55 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

18 quires: i-xii10 (folios 1-120), xiii8 (folios 121-128), xiv10 (folios 129-138), xv12 (folios 139-150), xvi-xvii10 (folios 151-170), xviii14-2 (folios 171-182).

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

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 indistinguishable.

Gilt edges.

Erasures by censors (e. g. folios 10r, 24v, 25r, 31r, 94r, 135v).

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive, Ashkenazi and Provencal square script, punctuated. Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura (folios 1-143) and Avraham Farissol (folios 144-182).

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather.

Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,029.'

History

Origin: 1501 Italy, C. (Bologna and Ferrara)

Provenance and Acquisition

Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Bologna, [5]261 [1501] (folio 140r); the word Daniel is decorated (folio 72v).

Avraham Farissol: inscribed with his name in the colophon, [5]262 [1502] (folio 182v).

Daṿid Marḳ of Cine bar Avraham: inscribed with his name in the colophon upon the erased name of the patron (folio 182v).

Riḳah, the sister of Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura, wife of Eli῾ezer of Rovigo, first owner: inscribed with her name in the colophon, Bologna, [5]261 [1501] (folio 140r).

Dominico Irosolimitano (fl. 1585-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 182v); see [Popper_1969] 62-74.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 135 (inscribed, folio [185v]); 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library by the British Museum in 1865 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.

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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. 623.
    Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 22 (in the Hebrew part).
    Edna Engel, 'Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol: Sephardi Tradition of Book Making in Northern Italy of the Renaissance Period', Jewish Art, 18 (1992), 148-67 (pp. 165-66).
    Colette Sirat, Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: University Press, 2008), p. 185.
    Michael Riegler and Judith R. Baskin, '"May the Writer be Strong": Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Copied by and For Women', Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Studies, 16 (2008), 9-28 (p. 27).

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [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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