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Or 2736

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Or 2736
Title:
Sidur, Italian 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:
479 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2736 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1390
End Date:
1390
Date Range:
1390
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CE
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Names:
Chaim Horowitz
Daniyel ben Shemuel ha-Rofe
Yosef Leṿi ha-Ḳatan
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Or 2736

Sidur, Italian rite

Contents

Summary of Contents: A daily prayer book (sidur), Italian rite, with the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Five Scrolls, and the Hafṭarot for the entire year in the margins.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-479v
Title: Sidur
Title: סדור

The margin contains the Psalms (149), folio 10r; the book of Proverbs, folio 134v; Job, folio 180r; Ruth, folio 234r; the Song of Songs, folio 242v; Ecclesiastes, folio 251v; Lamentations, folio 271r; Esther, folio 281v; the Hafṭarot for the whole year (preceded and followed by the benedictions), folio 303r.

Folios 4r-9r contain an index of the Psalms.

The margin of folios 4r-5r contains the times for reading the Song of Songs, Avot, Ruth, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra-Nahemiah, and Ecclesiastes.

Colophon: נשלמו כל הפטרות והסידו' מכל השנה יתברך שוכן מעונה. אמן. וזה נכתב ונשלם הנה בעיר בירטינורו היום יום ו' ראש חדש אייר שנת חמשת אלפים ומאה וחמשים לבריאת עולם. השם יזכינו להגות בו לעד אמן. וחלקי המחוקק יהיה צפון עם מצדיקי הרבים ככוכבים לעולם ועד. אמן: f. 479r

1 full-page miniature of a coat of arms, in colours and gold. f. 2v

1 full foliate border in colours and gold. f. 10r

Numerous texts in decorated frames and inhabited by birds, animals, hybrids, in colours.

ff. 3v-9r

Many initial-word panels with pen-flourishing inhabited by birds and hybrids, in colours.

Many pen-flourishing and foliate motifs around passages sometimes inhabited by hybrids and birds.

ff. 10r-15r
Title: Introduction
ff. 15v-97r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 97v-172r
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 172r-213r
Title: Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim, Ḥanukah, arba῾ah parashiyot
ff. 213r-280r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

The shevaḥot for the three festivals begin on folio 272v.

ff. 280r-314r
Title: Pirḳe avot
ff. 314v-327r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 327r-376r
Title: Special portions for Ta῾anit
ff. 376r-414r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 414v-447r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ṿiduy, folio 426r.

ff. 447r-479v
Title: Services for Sukot

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 479 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 90 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

479 folios (+ 1unfoliated parchment flyleaf).

Collation

61 quires: i2 (folios 1-2), ii-lx8 (folios 2a-473), lxi8-2 (folios 474-479).

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible. There are 15 lines in the body of a page and 22 in the margin.

Initial words are written in larger characters.

Catchwords are given at the end of the quires.

Blank pages: folios 1v, 2r, [2a recto] and [2a verso].

Hand(s)

Italian square script of the 14th century, partially punctuated. Daniyel ben Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe, dayan (judge) in Pisa, the first owner and probably the scribe: inscribed with his name (folio 3v).

Additions:

Binding

Pre-1600. Brown leather, tooled, with clasps.

Spine: 'Siddur. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2736.'

History

Origin: 1390 Italy, C. (Bertinoro)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef Leṿi ha-Ḳatan: his name inscribed in partially illegible inscriptions: [5]306 [1546] (folio 1r).

Inscription in Italian, dated: 19 August 1815 (inner front cover).

Chaim Horowitz: purchased from him on 26 January 1884 (inner back cover).

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=Or_2736 (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. 617.
    Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 80a).
    Hava Lazar, 'Jonah, the Tower, and the Lions: an Eighteenth Century Italian Silver Book Binding', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), pp. 58-73 (pp. 68-69).
    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.
    Mortara Luisa Ottolenghi, “Manoscritti Emiliagno-Romagnoli del XIV-XV secolo. Un punto d’Incontro tra miniatori cristiani ed ebrei?” in Atti del terzo convegno tenuto a Idice, Bologna, nei giorni 9-11 novembre 1982 Associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo.Convegno (3rd: 1982: Idice, Italy), (Roma: Carucci, 1985), pp. 103-13 (pp. 109-11).
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 74.

Funding of Cataloguing

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