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

Title

A daily prayer book in an Italian translation.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2443
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2443
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Italian; Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, S.Monte Albodo

Summary

A daily prayer book in an Italian translation.

Notes

• Stained at the end.
   
• Ink fading on the first pages.
   
• Rivḳah: inscribed in the colophon, folio 147v.
   
• Shemu᾿el ῾Agil: inscribed in a note, folio 148v.
   
• Folio 148r: a modern note in Italian.
   

Extent

149 folios; 149 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Prayer Book. Hebrew. Italian. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2443.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Marginal notes and corrections.

Script

Italian square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Punctuated. Yisra᾿el ben Eli῾ezer: inscribed in the colophon (folio 147v).

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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