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Title:
Sidur
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
113 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1469
End Date:
1469
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1469
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Maraviglia bat Menaḥem ben Shemu᾿el
Menaḥem ben Shemu᾿el
Yo᾿el ben Shim῾on Feibush
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Add MS 26957

Sidur

Contents

A portion of a daily prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-113v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

1 full foliate border in colours. f. 113r

8 textual drawings in the margins in brown ink. f. 39r, 39v, 42r, 43v, 45r, 45v, 55v, 74v

5 drawings of animals or dragons accompanying initial words, in ink. f. 3r, 37r, 45r, 53v, 63v

Numerous decorated initial words and initial-word panels, in sepia, violet and red ink.

8 marginal drawings in ink. f. 17r, 20v, 25r, 25v, 51v, 71r, 81r, 105r

Manicula. f. 89v

Colophon: ותשלם המלאכה [...] היום יום כ'ו' ימים לירח כסליו שנת חמשת אלפים ושלשים לבריאת עולם אשר כתבתי על זאת התפלה. אני הלבלר יואל ב"ר שמעון ז"ל כתבתי זאת התפלה לר' מנחם בכמ"ר שמואל ז"ל לו ולבתו הנכבדת והמשכל' הבתולה הנעימה מרת מרוילייא שתחיי' להתפלל בה היא וזרעה וזרע זרעה עד סוף. א'כ'י'ר'. f. 112r

The scribe gave the date erroneously as 26 Kislev 5030 [which would be 1269] instead of 5230 [1469].

ff. 1r-1v
Title: Services for week-days

Only the end of ῾arvit is left.

ff. 1v-32r
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 32r-37r
Title: Special portions for Purim, Ḥanukah, Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 37r-55v
Title: Hagadah and prayers for Pesaḥ
ff. 55v-59r
Title: Prayers for Shavu῾ot
ff. 59r-60r
Title: Special portions for Tish῾ah be-Av
ff. 60r-74v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 74v-102r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Contains Ṿiduy shel ga᾿on, folio 81r; Ṿiduy ha-rav Se῾adyah, folio 88r. Folios 99v-102r contain additional pieces to be said before and after seliḥot.

ff. 102r-112r
Title: Services for Sukot

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 113 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90/85 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

113 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older paper flyleaf and 3 modern paper flyleaves – all unfoliated – at the end).

Collation

11 quires: i-viii10 (folios 1-80), ix12 (folios 81-92), x10 (folios 93-102), xi10+1 (folios 103-113).

Catchwords.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning: a large portion is lacking.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square (punctuated) and Italian semi-cursive (unpunctuated) script; Sefardi punctuated square script (on folios 113r -113v). Yo᾿el ben Shim῾on Feibush: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 26 Kislev 5[2]30 [1469] (folio 112r).

ff. 113r-113v
due to a different, Sefardi type of handwriting.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,957.'

Accompanying Material

Folio 113: originally belonged to a different manuscript, written in a different but contemporary script, with coloured marginal illuminations on both sides of the leaf.

History

Origin: 1469 1469 Italy, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Menaḥem ben Shemu᾿el and his daughter Maraviglia bat Menaḥem ben Shemu᾿el: inscribed with their names in the colophon, 26 Kislev 5[2]30 [1469] (folio 112r).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 67: 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, [115v].

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. 615.
    Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 15 (in the Hebrew part).
    Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-shirah veha piyut: mi-zeman hatimat kitve ha- kodesh ad reshit tekufat ha-haskalah [Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry] (New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Amerikah, 1924-1933) [on the text].
    Michael Footner, 'Joel ben Simeon Illuminator of Hebrew MSS. In the XVth Century', The Jewish Quarterly Review, 27 (1937), 217-32.
    Joseph Gutmann, 'Thirteen Manuscripts in Search of Author: Joel Ben Simeon, 15th Century Scribe-Artist', Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, 9 (1970), 76-95.
    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), IV, p. 190.
    Malachi Beit-Arie, 'Joel ben Simeon’s Manuscripts: a Codicologer’s View', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), 25-39 (pp. 28-29).
    Sheila Edmund, 'The Place of the London Haggadah in the Work of Joel ben Simeon', Journal of Jewish Art, 7 (1980), 25-34 (pp. 25-26).
    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
    The Ashkenazi Haggadah: a Hebrew Manuscript of the mid-15th Century From the Collections of the British Library, notes on the illuminations, transcription and English translation by David Goldstein (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985), p. 9 [facsimile].
    Bezalel Narkiss, 'The Art of the Washington Haggadah', in The Washington Haggadah: A Facsimile Edition of an Illuminated Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript at the Library of Congress Signed by Joel ben Simeon, ed. M. M. Weinstein (Washington: Library of Congress, 1991), pp. 27-101.
    Yael Zirlin, 'Joel Meets Johannes: a Fifteenth-century Jewish-Christian Collaboration in Manuscript iIlumination', Viator, 26 (1995), 265-82.
    Yael Zirlin, 'Celui qui se cache derrière l’image: colophons d’enlumineurs dans les manuscrits hébraïques', Revue des Etudes Juives, 155 (1997), 33-52.
    Evelyn M. Cohen, Joel ben Simeon Revisited: Reflections of the Scribe’s Artistic Repertoire in a Cinquecento Haggadah, in A Crown for a King; Studies in Jewish Art, History and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser, ed. by Shalom Sabar, Steven Fine and William M. Kramer (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2000), pp. 59-71.
    Shlomo Zucker, The Moskowitz Mahzor of Joel ben Simeon: Ashkenazi Italian Scribe and Illuminator of Hebrew Manuscripts: Ms. Heb. 4=1384 (Jerusalem: Jewish National and University Library, 2005), p. xiii.
    Yael Zirlin, 'Meir Jaffe and Joel Ben Simeon: Working Relations between Jewish Scribes and a Christian Atelier,' Auskunft, 26 (2006), 287-309.

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