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Add MS 26971

Record Id:
032-003369735
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Add MS 26971
Title:
Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
181 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26971 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26971

Sidur

Contents

A daily prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-181v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 181 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 100 × 70 mm.
Dimensions (written): 75 × 50 mm.
Foliation:

181 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 18 to 20 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

First 30 folios are much damaged, with partly illegible text.

Defective at the beginning, and some leaves are also missing after folio 48.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Visible pen ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters, often enclosed in a pen and ink designs

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (?) square script of the 15th century. Partially punctuated.

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Siddur, Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,971.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 82: 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, [183v].

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26971 (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. 620.

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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