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Royal MS 16 A I

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Royal MS 16 A I
Title:
Collection of prayers, Ashkenazi rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
289 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1450-1499
Era:
CE
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Royal MS 16 A I

Collection of prayers, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

A collection of prayers belonging to the Ashkenazi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-289v
Title: Tefilot
Title: תפילות

The collection contains Shir ha-yiḥud and Seder ha-ma῾arakhah by Eliyah ben Menaḥem ha-Zaḳen, folio 1r-19v. The poem for each day of the week immediately precedes the Seder ma῾arakhah for the same day.

72 pesuḳim, folios 92r-102r, followed by Yehi ratson bearing on the recital of these verses, and Ani ma᾿amin.

Pereḳ shirah, folios 102r-113r.

Sefer ha-gan, folios 113r-172v, an ethical work in seven sections for the seven days of the week, by Yitsḥaḳ ben Eli῾ezer.

A series of penitential prayers, folios 172v-220r.

Keter malkhut of Solomon ibn Gabirol, folios 220r-260r, divided into seven portions for the days of the week.

A prayer, followed by Gen. 32:4-33:20 and the prayers to be recited before retiring to rest, folios 260r-276v. The name Mosheh ben Menaḥem is inserted in the first prayer.

Calendric computations, folios 276v-282r.

Ha-aderet veha-emunah, followed by some additional pieces, folios 282r-289v.

"אמי מרת שעריל ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' נעדרת ליל ו' כ' כסליו רנ"ז לפרט קטן. f. 279v "

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the second half of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 289 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 75 × 50 mm.
Dimensions (written): 55 × 30 mm.
Foliation:

289 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; 1 unfoliated vellum flyleaf at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 13

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios indistinguishable.

Parts of the text written in red ink.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 15th century.

ff. 276v-289v
- written in a different, later hand.

Additions:

Binding

Post 1600. Black leather. Boxed.

Spine: 'Prayers, Hymns, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Brit. Mus. Reg. 16 A. I.'

History

Origin: 1450-1499 2nd half of the 15th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Records of birth, folios 218r-219r.

1757

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

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=Royal_MS_16_A_I (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. 678.

Funding of Cataloguing

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