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Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27208
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27208
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A daily prayer book according to the German rite, with a commentary.

Notes

• Ink considerably worn off (roughly retouched on folios 1-14).
   

Extent

299 folios; 299 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Tephilloth. German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,208.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 15 25; written lines: 14 24; Uniform layout, with varying number of lines in the margin. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words are written in larger characters. Some initial words are highlighted in red ink (see folios 2r, 3r, 55r, 56r, 57r, 98r, etc.). Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Most of the margins are occupied with the commentary. The margin left by the scribe for commentary has on some pages been left blank. Parts of the main text are written in red ink, see e.g. folios 168v, 172v, 177r, etc. The commentary in the margin takes various geometrical and decorative shapes, see e.g. folios 99v, 103v, 109v, 125v, 137v, 161v, etc.

Script

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 323: 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 [301v].
   

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. 83r — Services for Shabat
• fol. 123v — Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh etc.
• fol. 136r — Prayers for shalosh regalim
• fol. 147v — Seder Pesaḥ
• fol. 177v — Avot
• fol. 227v — Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur
• fol. 264r — Hosh῾anot
• fol. 286r — Prayers and readings for yamim ṭovim