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Add MS 19667
Title:
Sidur, Provencal (Avignon) rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
285 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19667 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19667

Sidur, Provencal (Avignon) rite

Contents

A daily prayer book, according to the Provencal (Avignon) rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-285v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The upper and lower margin of the manuscript is occupied with Psalms (starting with Ps. 19, folio 1r-227v) and Masekhet avot (from folio 228r on), with some additional pieces at the end.

A large part of folio 195 was cut out to remove expressions disapproved by the censor, and several erasures were also made in other parts of the manuscript, for the same reason.

ff. 1r-74r
Title: Morning prayer for week-days

Includes additional portions for the second and the fifth day of the week.

ff. 74r-74v
Title: Indication for minḥah
ff. 74v-83v
Title: ῾Arvit

This part is followed by Ḳeri'at shema῾ ῾al ha-miṭah.

ff. 83v-127v
Title: Services for Sabbath

Ḳedushah rabah begins on folio 109v; Adon ῾olam begins on folio 109v.

ff. 127v-141r
Title: Additional portions for Rosh ḥodesh.

Followed by Birkat levanah and the special portions for Ḥanukah, Purim and fast days.

ff. 141r-147v
Title: Tefilat ha-mo῾ed
ff. 147v-181v
Title: Seder ha-Pesaḥ

Hagadah, according to the Sefardi order, begins on folio 148r.

ff. 181v-244r
Title: Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur
ff. 244r-268r
Title: Services for the night of Simḥat Torah

Includes the pericope Zot ha-berakhah in Hebrew and in the Targum, in alternate verses, followed by reading from the beginning of each of the books of the Pentateuch, the pericope Mafṭir, and the Hafṭarah for Simḥat Torah (as in the usual order).

ff. 268r-285v
Title: Seder parashiyot

The order of pericopes for rashe hodashim and other festivals.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 285 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 95 × 50 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90/85 × 35/30 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end (mostly cut away in the trimming).

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning.

Lacunae after folios 8 and 73.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French) semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

ff. 1r-285r
Marginal text written by a different but contemporary hand.

Binding

Post-1600. Black buckram. Gold tooled.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Rite of Carpentras. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,667.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century France, S. (Avignon)

Provenance and Acquisition

1853-11-12

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him by the British Museum on 12 November 1853: inscribed, folio [286v].

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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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. 698.

Funding of Cataloguing

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