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

Title

Sidur (סדור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2736
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2736
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, C.Bertinoro

Summary

A daily prayer book (sidur), Italian rite, with the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Five Scrolls, and the Hafṭarot for the entire year in the margins.

Notes

• Yosef Leṿi ha-Ḳatan: his name inscribed in partially illegible inscriptions: [5]306 [1546] (folio 1r).
   
• Inscription in Italian, dated: 19 August 1815 (inner front cover).
   

Extent

479 folios; 479 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600. Brown leather, tooled, with clasps. Spine: 'Siddur. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2736.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15; written lines: 15; Uniform layout. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. There are 15 lines in the body of a page and 22 in the margin. Initial words are written in larger characters. Catchwords are given at the end of the quires. Blank pages: folios 1v, 2r, [2a recto] and [2a verso].

Script

Italian square script of the 14th century, partially punctuated. Daniyel ben Shemu᾿el ha-Rofe, dayan (judge) in Pisa, the first owner and probably the scribe: inscribed with his name (folio 3v).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Chaim Horowitz: purchased from him on 26 January 1884 (inner back cover).
   

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. 10r — Introduction
• fol. 15v — Services for week-days
• fol. 97v — Services for Shabat
• fol. 172r — Special portions for Rosh ḥodesh, Purim, Ḥanukah, arba῾ah parashiyot
• fol. 213r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 280r — Pirḳe avot
• fol. 314v — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 327r — Special portions for Ta῾anit
• fol. 376r — Services for Rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 414v — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 447r — Services for Sukot