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

Title

A daily prayer book according to the Italian rite.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 11924
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11924
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Italian

Origin

Summary

A daily prayer book according to the Italian rite.

Notes

• Red ink extremely fugitive in water and often smeared across leaf or offset on next.
   
• Fading ink.
   
• Signs of damp entry with a few tidemarks.
   
• Losses to first few leaves and elsewhere have been infilled.
   

Extent

182 folios; 182 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Daily Prayers. Rite of N. Italy. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,924.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Larger square initial words, partly highlighted in red ink. Hard-point ruling (complete) visible. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Captions of the drawings are perhaps in Judeo-Italian. Watermark of a fleur-de-lis, folio [183], unidentified.

Script

Italian square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century, punctuated. Yisrael: the name Yisrael is decorated several times (e.g., folios 79v, 178v, 181v).

Provenance

• Antonio Franc. Enriques
   
• Acquisition: Purchased from Heinrich Eisemann by the British Museum on 27 October 1949: inscribed, folio [183v] (fse001v).
   

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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