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Title

A daily prayer book according to rite of Rome.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 11669
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11669
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A daily prayer book according to rite of Rome.

Notes

• Edges nearly black with damp and mould in margins, worst at bottom corner.
   
• Old damage repaired and infilled possibly in several phases, rebound in 20th century.
   
• Silked in part to support ink corrosion.
   

Extent

315 folios; 315 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Daily and Festival Prayers. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,669.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Larger square initial words. Hard-point ruling (complete) visible. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Partly vocalised. Marginal notes.

Script

Sefardi square script of the 16th to 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Presented by the Governors of Highgate School on 14 November 1938: inscribed, folio [317v] (fse002v).
   

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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