Description of British Library, Add MS 26957: Sidur (סדור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26957: 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 26957: 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. Imperfect at the beginning: a large portion is lacking. Menaḥem ben Shemu᾿el and his daughter Maraviglia bat Menaḥem ben Shemu᾿el: inscribed with their names in the colophon, 26 Kislev 5[2]30 [1469] (folio 112r). Folio 113: originally belonged to a different manuscript, written in a different but contemporary script, with coloured marginal illuminations on both sides of the leaf. 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 26957 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26957 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A portion of a daily prayer book. Hebrew Sidur (סדור) 1r Services for week-days 1v Services for Shabat 32r Special portions for Purim, Ḥanukah, Rosh ha-shanah 37r Hagadah and prayers for Pesaḥ 55v Prayers for Shavu῾ot 59r Special portions for Tish῾ah be-Av 60r Services for Rosh ha-shanah 74v Services for Yom Kipur 102r Services for Sukot

Paper

 113 folios; 113 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Catchwords at the end of the quires. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Ashkenazi square (punctuated) and Italian semi-cursive (unpunctuated) script; Sefardi punctuated square script (on folios 113r -113v). Yo᾿el ben Shim῾on Feibush: inscribed with his name in the colophon, 26 Kislev 5[2]30 [1469] (folio 112r).

BM in-house. Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,957.'

1469

Italy, N. Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 67: 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, [115v].