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Title

A daily prayer book with seliḥot (i.e. propitiatory prayers), Ashkenazi rite.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27205
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27205
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A daily prayer book with seliḥot (i.e. propitiatory prayers), Ashkenazi rite.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Margins too closely cut.
   
• Folios 1-12 and 109-118: insertions of probably the 14th century.
   
• Folio 185: probably of the 11th or 12th century, Sefardi origin.
   
• Folios 179-180: a palimpsest, the underlying text being that of a Latin manuscript of the 10th century, apparently containing ecclesiastical canons.
   
• Mosheh ha-Leṿi: inscribed in a half-erased entry, folio 1r.
   
• Uri bar Ya῾aḳov ha-Kohen: inscribed at the bottom of folio 1v.
   
• Menaḥem ben Uri and Menaḥem ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen: inscribed in the margin of folio 1v.
   
• Eliaḳim ben Ya῾aḳov Meshulam ha-Kohen: inscribed, folio 4v.
   

Extent

185 folios; 185 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Selichoth. german Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,205.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. Pricking (in outer margins only) and hard-point ruling (bifolium by bifolium) is visible. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios hardly distinguishable.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 12th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 319; 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 [186v].
   

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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