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Or 11651

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Or 11651
Title:
Seliḥot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
228 folios (i+228+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian, bookseller and publisher, 1819-1899
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11651

Seliḥot

Contents

Seliḥot for the whole year according to the Ashkenazi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-228r
Author:
Title: סליחות. מנהג אשכנז לכל השנה
Title: Seliḥot. Minhag Ashkenaz le-khol ha-shanah

Includes a service for a circumcision, the Torah reading and the Haftarah for public fast days, and a service for kapparot. The selihot for the eve of Yom Kippur are after the selihot for the other prayers of Yom Kippur. F. 214v onwards are yotserot for the period of time between Passover and Shavu’ot (the count of the omer) until the Three Weeks (Ben ha-Metsarim).

Two notes have been erased from f.1r.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 228 folios (i+228+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 116 mm.
Dimensions (written): 104 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

23 quires: i-xxii10, xxiii10-2.

Catchword at the end of the quires (ff. 10v, 50v, 110v, 150v, 160v, 210v, 220v: catchword is missing, perhaps has been trimmed off).

Condition

Worm damage, ff. 1-2 is fixed with silk gauze.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Ruling in pencil is visible.

Even left margins.

Section headings are written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi script of the 15th century.

Additions:

"Igeret ha-Teshuvah by the genius [...] our Rabbi Yonah Gerondi" was added to the margins of ff. 1r-8r by an Italian hand (incomplete).

English description of contents in pencil on f. 1r.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled, with new BM spine.

Spine: 'Selīḥōth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,651.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy or Ashkenaz?

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 1r: "שלי הוא שמעון כהן" ושטר מכירת כה"י שפרטיו מחוקים משנת התל"ג(?.

Censors' signatures on f. 228v: 'revisus p[er] me Laurenti Franguelli 1575'; 'Dominico Irosolomi[ta]no' 'visto per me Fra Dominico Carretto 1628'.

Prince Augustus Frederick (b. 1773, d. 1843), duke of Sussex: his armorial book-plate, inscribed 'VI. I. b. 3' (inside upper cover).

'Purchased from B. Quaritch 12-iv-38': inscribed on the back pastedown.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

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