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Or 9626

Record Id:
032-003441375
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9626
Title:
Sidur in Judeo-Italian, Italian rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
166 folios (ii+166+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9626 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1475
End Date:
1525
Date Range:
1475-1525
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Isaiah Sonne
Shemaria ben Avraham
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9626

Sidur in Judeo-Italian, Italian rite

Contents

Jewish prayerbook according to the Italian rite, in Judeo-Italian translation.

Language(s): Italian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-166v
Title: תרגום איטלקי לסדור מנהג רומה
Title: Targum Iṭalḳi le-Sidur minhag Romah

Some marginal notes.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

ff. 30r-43r
Title: מעריב דשבת
ff. 43r-57r
Title: יוצר דילו שבת
ff. 76v-81v
Title: מוסף דראש חדש
ff. 81v-83r
Title: על הנסים דחנוכה
ff. 83r-83r
Title: על הנסים דפורים
ff. 92r-93r
Title: תשעה באב
ff. 93r-97r
Title: תפלות דפסח
ff. 97v-102v
Title: מוסף דפסח
ff. 102v-105r
Title: תפלות דשבועות
ff. 105r-109v
Title: מוסף דשבועות
ff. 110r-120v
Title: תפלות דראש השנה

Ff. 118r-120v: Avinu malkhenu.

ff. 120v-123v
Title: מוסף דראש השנה
ff. 136v-140v
Title: לערובה דצום כפור
ff. 136v-145r
Title: לערובה דצום כפור
ff. 145v-149r
Title: מוסף דצום כפור
ff. 149v-152v
Title: מנחה דצום כפור
ff. 153r-155r
Title: תפלות די סוכות
ff. 155v-160r
Title: מוסף דסוכות
ff. 160r-162r
Title: לימוספין דחולו של מועד
ff. 162r-164v
Title: לורדיני דלי תפלות דשמיני עצרת
ff. 164v-166v
Title: מוסף דשמיני עצרת

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 166 folios (ii+166+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 138 × 101 mm.
Dimensions (written): 80 × 60 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

17 quires: i-ii8 (ff. 1-8, 9-16), iii-xvii10 (ff. 17-26, 27-36, 37-46, 47-56, 57-66, 67-76, 77-86, 87-96, 97-106, 107-116, 117-126, 127-136, 137-146, 147-156, 157-166).

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Signatures in Hebrew characters at the end of the quires and at the beginning of the quires in the upper inner corner (some of the latter have been cut off or in the gutter). Ff. 1-8 is marked as quire 3, that is, the first two quires are missing.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage.

F. 136v: initial word has been erased.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 14

Written lines: 14

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible in places.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script; vocalised. The same scribe, Shemaria ben Avraham copied Parma BP MS 1989, dated 1484 (see Pasternak, 'Graphic drawings', p. 10).

Decoration

Numerous initial-word panels with pen flourishing, in red and blue colours (e.g. ff. 4v, 8r, 9r, 9v, 12r, 76v, 97v, 113r, 164v).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Siddur. Italian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9626.'

History

Origin: 1475-1525 Late 15th - early 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Dr. I. Sonne. 31 Aug. 1925.'; J. Sonne is probably identical with Isaiah Sonne (1877-1960).; date of accession 15 October 1925.

Record Sources

Source: Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9626 (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), vol. IV. p. 159.
    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.
    Pasternak, Nurit, 'The Judeo-Italian Translation of the Song of Songs and Yaʿaqov da Corinaldo', Materia Giudaica 10, no. 2 (2005), pp. 267-282.
    The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy, ed. Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), p. 227 n123.

Funding of Cataloguing

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