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Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27086
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27086
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A daily prayer book according to the Ashkenazi rite, with a number of poetical pieces.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Several leaves more or less damaged.
   

Extent

264 folios; 264 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Siddur, German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,086.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Catchwords decorated with a simple pen and ink designs (see e.g., folio 167v, 223v).

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 192: 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, folio [266v].
   

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. 1v — Services for week-days
• fol. 33v — Services for Shabat
• fol. 55v — Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim, etc.
• fol. 62v — Prayers for yamim ṭovim
• fol. 65v — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 86r — Pirḳe avot
• fol. 113r — A series of ma῾arivim
• fol. 144r — Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur
• fol. 171v — Hosh῾anot
• fol. 186v — Poetical pieces