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Or 10359

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032-003376166
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Or 10359
Title:
Sidur, Italian rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
108 folios (i+108+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10359

Sidur, Italian rite

Contents

Prayer book according to the Italian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-108v
Author:
Title: סדור מנהג רומה לכל השנה
Title: Sidur minhag Romah le-khol ha-shanah

Includes: from the middle of the weekday Amidah prayer to the middle of the Musaf prayer for Rosh ha-Shanah.

Several leaves are missing.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 108 folios (i+108+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 156 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 102 × 62 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

11 quires: i10-1, ii-vi10, vii8+1, viii-xi10.

Catchword on f. 88v, 98v

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Text in 1 and 2 columns.

Hair and flesh sides are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew square script of the 15th-16th century; punctuated.

Decoration

Ff. 1v-16v: decorated initial-word panels and panels at the end of certain sections; decoration does not continue in the rest of the manuscript, probably left unfinished.

Additions:

F. 69r: calculations in pencil in the margin.

FF. 103v, 104r: scribbles.

Binding

Post-1600, quarter-bound, black.

Spine: '764 מחזור'.

Accompanying Material

Paper slip is glued on f. 108v. It is from the Schwager-Frankel catalogue, no. 954.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Italy(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 764: inscribed with his name on ff. 1r, 108v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 13 December 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10359 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Langer, Ruth, 'Mapping Medieval Liturgical Rites: A Methodological Proposal', in Ha-Tefilah ba-Yiśraʾel: hebetim ḥadashim (Jewish Prayer: New Perspectives), ed. Uri Ehrlich (Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2016), pp. 31-70.

Funding of Cataloguing

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