Description of British Library, Add MS 27072: Sidur (סדור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2023-02-03 2023-02-03 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 27072: 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 27072: 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. Usage stains. Mould at ends. 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 27072 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27072 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A prayer book for the entire year, according to the Italian rite. Hebrew Sidur (סדור) 1v Services for week-days 40r Services for Shabat 75v Berakhot ḥidush ha-levanah 91r Services for Pesaḥ 119r Masekhet avot 139r Services for Shavu῾ot 158r Additional portions for fasts and seliḥot 194v Piyuṭim 200r Seder ha-ma῾amadot 225v Services for Rosh ha-shanah 242r Services for Yom Kipur 270r Services for Sukot

Paper

 309 folios; 309 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Initial words in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Ruling with ink (horizontal) and by plummet (vertical) visible. Traces of pricking. Graphic fillers at the end of line. Last line written outside ruling. Gilt edges. Italian square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Abraham Farissol of Avignon: inscribed with his name in the colophon,5242 [1482] (folio 309v).

Post-1600. Vellum over boards. Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,072.'

1482

 Esther Dominico Irosolomitano Giovanni Domenico Carretto Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 177: 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, [310v].