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Or 2443

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032-003375130
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TEI
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Or 2443
Title:
Sidur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
149 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2443 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1483
End Date:
1483
Date Range:
1483
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Rivḳah
Shemu᾿el ῾Agil
Yisra᾿el ben Eli῾ezer
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2443

Sidur

Contents

A daily prayer book in an Italian translation.

Language(s): Italian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-149v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The pronunciation is indicated throughout by Hebrew vowel-points.

Colophon: ותשלם מלאכת הקדש אשר כתבתי אני ישראל בכ"ר אליעזר נבתויא והשלמתיו פה הר אלבודו למרת רבקה תמ"א היום יום א' בארבעה ועשרים לחדש תמוז שנת קמ"ג השם יזכנו ויזכה להגות בו עם שאר ספרי הקדש הוא וזרעה וזרע זרעה וכו'. f. 147v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 149 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 95 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Stained at the end.

Ink fading on the first pages.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Marginal notes and corrections.

Hand(s)

Italian square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Punctuated. Yisra᾿el ben Eli῾ezer: inscribed in the colophon (folio 147v).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Italian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2443.'

History

Origin: 1483 Italy, S. (Monte Albodo)

Provenance and Acquisition

Rivḳah: inscribed in the colophon, folio 147v.

Shemu᾿el ῾Agil: inscribed in a note, folio 148v.

Folio 148r: a modern note in Italian.

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=Or_2443 (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. 625.
    Pasternak, Nurit, 'Graphic Drawings as Signposts ofr Easy Spotting of Prayers. A Curious Navigation Aid Found in a Judeo-Italian Manuscript (MS London, BL Or. 2443)', Gazette du livre médiéval, no. 39 (2001), pp. 10-20.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL