Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27029
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27029
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, C.BolognaFerrara

Summary

A daily prayer book, according to the Italian rite.

Notes

• Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Bologna, [5]261 [1501] (folio 140r); the word Daniel is decorated (folio 72v).
   
• Avraham Farissol: inscribed with his name in the colophon, [5]262 [1502] (folio 182v).
   
• Daṿid Marḳ of Cine bar Avraham: inscribed with his name in the colophon upon the erased name of the patron (folio 182v).
   
• Riḳah, the sister of Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura, wife of Eli῾ezer of Rovigo, first owner: inscribed with her name in the colophon, Bologna, [5]261 [1501] (folio 140r).
   
• Dominico Irosolimitano (fl. 1585-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 182v); see 62-74.
   

Extent

182 folios; 182 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather. Spine: 'Siddur. Roman Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,029.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Visible plummet ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are indistinguishable. Gilt edges. Erasures by censors (e. g. folios 10r, 24v, 25r, 31r, 94r, 135v).

Script

Italian semi-cursive, Ashkenazi and Provencal square script, punctuated. Daniyel ben Yitsḥaḳ of Ventura (folios 1-143) and Avraham Farissol (folios 144-182).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 135 (inscribed, folio [185v]); 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library by the British Museum in 1865 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, [183v].
   

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. 35r — Services for Shabat
• fol. 64v — Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim etc.
• fol. 73v — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 83v — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 86v — Services for Rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 102v — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 122r — Services for Sukot
• fol. 145v — A collection of poetical pieces