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

Title

A daily prayer book in an Italian translation in Hebrew characters.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 74
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_74
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Italian; Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A daily prayer book in an Italian translation in Hebrew characters.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Eli῾ezer Rovigo: inscribed, folio 1r, 2r.
   
• Folio 170v: 'Si concede questo officio uulgaro a' M' Leon di Ruuigo heb per me F Luigi sine che uenga la risuletiona da Roma se li officii delli hebrei siano proibiti come li uulgari de christiani.'
   
• Folio 170r: '1555 die x. decembris Reuisus per D. Jacobum Geraldini commiss[arium] apostolicum. Ceasar Belliossus curiae apostol. Bononiensis et dicti D. commiss[arii] not[arius] jurid.'
   

Extent

170 folios; 170 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather. Gold and blind tooled. Spine: 'Machzor. Italian. Hebrew Character. Brit. Mus. Oriental 74.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Uniform layout. Visible ink ruling, page by page. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Script

Ashkenazi/Italian square script of the 15th century. Punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi of Tunis: purchased by the British Museum on 22 April 1868: inscribed, [171v].
   

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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