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Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26968
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26968
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A prayer book ('Forli Sidur') for the entire year, according to the Italian rite.

Notes

• 12 illustrations were added in 2nd or 3rd quarter of the fifteenth century, produced in Veneto, Italy.
   

Extent

342 folios; 342 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,968.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Catchwords (decorated) at the end of the quires. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning, and there is a gap after folio 152. Erased text (folio 26v). Ruling by hard point (bifolium by bifolium) and pricking (in outer margins only) are visible.

Script

Italian square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Mosheh ben Yeḳutiel Ḥefets Tsifroni: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Forli, [5]143 [1383] (folio 323v); probably his arms (folio 259v, 325).

Provenance

• Daniyel ben Shemuel ha-Rofe
   
• Avraham ben Shelomoh
   
• Laurentius Franguellus
   
• Hippolite of Ferrara
   
• D'Angelo Levi quem Amadeo di Lodovo
   
• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 79: 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, [345v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Services for week-days
• fol. 46v — Services for Shabat
• fol. 91v — Berakhot se῾udah
• fol. 107r — ῾Inyan Pesaḥ
• fol. 137v — Poetical pieces
• fol. 145r — Masekhet avot
• fol. 157v — Seder ῾inyan Shavu῾ot
• fol. 167r — ῾Inyan ta῾aniyot
• fol. 230v — Seder ῾inyan Rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 259v — Seder ῾inyan Yom Kipur
• fol. 295r — ῾Inyan ḥag Sukot
• fol. 317r — ῾Inyan Shemini ῾atseret
• fol. 324v — ῾Eruvin
• fol. 329v — Poetical pieces
• fol. 336v — Seder ḥatanim u-birkat erusin
• fol. 339v — Additional pieces