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

Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27072
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27072
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A prayer book for the entire year, according to the Italian rite.

Notes

• Usage stains.
   
• Mould at ends.
   

Extent

309 folios; 309 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

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

Layout

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.

Script

Italian square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Abraham Farissol of Avignon: inscribed with his name in the colophon,5242 [1482] (folio 309v).

Provenance

• 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].
   

Related resources

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Services for week-days
• fol. 40r — Services for Shabat
• fol. 75v — Berakhot ḥidush ha-levanah
• fol. 91r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 119r — Masekhet avot
• fol. 139r — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 158r — Additional portions for fasts and seliḥot
• fol. 194v — Piyuṭim
• fol. 200r — Seder ha-ma῾amadot
• fol. 225v — Services for Rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 242r — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 270r — Services for Sukot