Description of British Library, Add MS 26971: Sidur (סדור)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish Library2022-11-152022-11-15These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26971: 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 26971: 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.First 30 folios are much damaged, with partly illegible text.Defective at the beginning, and some leaves are also missing after folio 48.Stained.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectAdd MS 26971http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26971https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsA daily prayer book.HebrewSidur (סדור)1rסדור1rSidur
Parchment
181 folios; 181 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 14; written lines: 14; Uniform layout. Visible pen ruling. Initial words written in larger characters, often enclosed in a pen and ink designs Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.Sefardi (?) square script of the 15th century. Partially punctuated.
Post-1600. Black leather. Spine: 'Siddur, Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,971.'
Between 1400 and 1499
Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 82: 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, [183v].