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Or 10580

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032-003451900
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Or 10580
Title:
Sidur in Hungarian translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
120 folios (numerous blank leaves at the end)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Hungarian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1845
End Date:
1845
Date Range:
1845
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
Péchi, Simon, c 1575-1642
Péchi, Simon, c 1575-1642
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10580

Sidur in Hungarian translation

Contents

Prayer book translated into Hungarian by Simon Péchi.

Language(s): Hungarian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-120r
Title: Prayer book and Psalter

Translated by the Sabbatarian Péchi Simon (1575?-1642?).

F. 1r: 'Felséges Szent URISTEN Dicsőségére kezdettem ezen könyvet gyenge tehetségem szerént írni.'

F. 1v: שוית יהרה לנודי תמיד (correctly: שוית יהוה לנגדי תמיד).

Colophon:
ff. 1v-15v
Title: Prayers for Shabbat

'Szombat bé jöveteleire az az Pénteken Estvére valo Imátságʾ

ff. 16r-54r
Title: Shaḥarit for Shabbat

'Szombat reggeli Imátság'

ff. 54v-87r
Title: Musaf for Shabbat

'Dél esti Imátság'

ff. 87r-87r
Title: New Moon

'Uj hold innepire valo Imátság'

ff. 87r-100r
Title: Hallel

'Az Nagy Halle'

ff. 100r-111v
Title: Passover

'Az Pésa innepire valo imadság'

ff. 111v-115v
Title: Shavuʿot

'Az Törvény ki adatott a Sinai hegyen hét hetek ... innepe

ff. 116r-119v
Title: Succot

'Sátoros innepekre valo Imádságok'

Incomplete at the end.

References

Péchi Simon Psalteriuma. Közzéteszi Szilády Áron (Budapest, 1913).
Péchi Simon szombatos imádságos könyve. Közzéteszik Dr. Guttmann M. és Dr. Harmos Sándor. Kiadja az Izr. Magyar Irodalmi Társulat. (Budapest, 1914).
ff. 87r-87r
Title: New Moon

'Uj hold innepire valo Imátság'

ff. 87r-100r
Title: Hallel

'Az Nagy Halle'

ff. 100r-111v
Title: Passover

'Az Pésa innepire valo imadság'

ff. 111v-115v
Title: Shavuʿot

'Az Törvény ki adatott a Sinai hegyen hét hetek ... innepe

ff. 116r-119v
Title: Succot

'Sátoros innepekre valo Imádságok'

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 120 folios (numerous blank leaves at the end)
Dimensions (leaf): 198 × 123 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel pagination in ink by the scribe.

Collation

15 quires: i-xiv8 (ff. 1-112), xv8-1 (ff. 113-119), and numerous quires with unfoliated blank leaves.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, dirt, liquid damage.

Collation is falling apart, some leaves have come loose.

Layout

Columns:1

Section headings are larger, often in capital letters.

Hand(s)

Hungarian (Latin) cursive script of the 19th century.

Additions:

F. 120 is half of a much smaller bifolio glued onto the leaf after f. 119. It contains text for lighting candles at Hanukah.

Front pastedown: 'Aprlis tizen hetedikén péteken este'.

Hebrew notes in pencil on the margins.

Binding

Leather binding. Front and back covers might have been replaced. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'Prayerbook Hungarian. Szobotniki 1361'

History

Origin: 1845 Romania (Transylvania) or Hungary

Provenance and Acquisition

Yiddish purchase note on back pastedown, dated Szentkirály, 1850: פר דעם סידר קסט ו' גילדן מיט 30 קרייצר אשר כץ ...ר"ר יצחק ז"ל 1850 שנת תר"י לפ"ק פוה סענקיראיי. The buyer paid 6(?) Gulden 30 Kreuzer for the prayer book.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1361; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; accession date 10 February 1932.

Record Sources

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

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