Description of British Library, Add MS 26954: Sidur (סדור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26954: Sidur (סדור) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 26954: Sidur (סדור). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Defective at the end. Edges too tightly cut. Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 26954 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26954 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A daily prayer book according to the German-Polish rite, with a collection of poetical pieces at the end. Hebrew Sidur (סדור) 1v Services for week-days 56v Services for the Sabbath 100v Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh and Purim 104v Prayers for Shalosh regalim 111v Hagadah for Passover 133r [Pirḳe avot] 157v Prayers for the New Year 175v Prayers for the Day of Atonement 202r Poetical pieces

Parchment

 249 folios; 249 folios Folio 157 is currently placed between folio 165 and 166, and folio 150 is where folio 157 should be. Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. A number of marginal notes, partly filling up omissions in the text and sometimes containing notes on the text. The spaces left for the ornamental designs have as a rule not been filled in (see e.g., folio 20r, 20v). Gilt edges. Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

BM in-house. Spine: 'Siddur, German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 26,954.'

Between 1300 and 1399

Germany Poland Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 64: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: inscribed, folio [251v].