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Record Id:
032-003369726
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Add MS 26954
Title:
Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
249 folios
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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:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26954

Sidur

Contents

A daily prayer book according to the German-Polish rite, with a collection of poetical pieces at the end.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-249v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

Some variations in readings according to the Polish rite are given in various places.

f. 1v, 9r, 9v decorated initial-word panels, in colours.

ff. 1v-56v
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 56v-100v
Title: Services for the Sabbath
ff. 100v-104v
Title: Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh and Purim
ff. 104v-111v
Title: Prayers for Shalosh regalim
ff. 111v-133r
Title: Hagadah for Passover
ff. 133r-157v
Title: [Pirḳe avot]
ff. 157v-175v
Title: Prayers for the New Year
ff. 175v-202r
Title: Prayers for the Day of Atonement
ff. 202r-249v
Title: Poetical pieces

Hosh῾anot, folio 202r; ma῾ariv for Pesaḥ, folio 220r; ma῾ariv for Shavu῾ot, folio 236r; ma῾ariv for Sukot, folio 241r.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 249 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

249 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Folio 157 is currently placed between folio 165 and 166, and folio 150 is where folio 157 should be.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires, partly cut away.

Condition

Defective at the end.

Edges too tightly cut.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

A number of marginal notes, partly filling up omissions in the text and sometimes containing notes on the text.

The spaces left for the ornamental designs have as a rule not been filled in (see e.g., folio 20r, 20v).

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Siddur, German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 26,954.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany or Poland

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 64: 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, folio [251v].

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_26954 (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. 649.

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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