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Or 14055

Record Id:
032-003391558
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003391558
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14055
Title:
Prayerbook, Italian rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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032-003391558
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
101 folios (i+101+i)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14055 (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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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
David Solomon Sassoon
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14055

Prayerbook, Italian rite

Contents

Prayer book according to the rite of Rome for various occasions.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-101r
Title: תפלות מנהג רומה להזדמנויות שונות
Title: Tefilot minhag Romah le-hizdamnuyot shonot

Among the included: Nahmanides’ traveller’s prayer (tefilat ha-derekh), services for grooms and betrothal, circumcision, redemption of the firstborn (pidyon ha-ben), prayers for the dead etc.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 101 folios (i+101+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 75 × 54 mm.
Dimensions (written): 50 × 34 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

10 quires of 10 leaves.

Signatures at the end of quires in Hebrew characters. Quire iii is numbered ד!; signature is missing at the end of quire vii; quire ix is numbered as ג!

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10

Written lines: 10

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Binding

BL in-house binding. Brown leather. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'Prayers Hebrew. Brit. Lib. OR. MS. 14055.' Light blue sticker on spine: 'Or. 53.a'.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription in Hebrew on f. 1r, partially illegible: זה הספר....

Once belonged to the collection of David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942): collector of Jewish manuscripts.

Acquired in 1982; date of accession 2 February 1982. Allocated by the Office of Arts and Libraries

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14055 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Sassoon, D.S., אהל דוד (Ohel Dawid) Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), v. 1, p. 274-275.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL