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Detailed record for Additional 19945
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| Title |
Festival prayer book (mahzor), Italian rite, volume 2 |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Florence) |
| Date |
1441 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Italian semi-cursive script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Issac ben Obadiah ben David of Forli (Gaio di Servadio), active in Florence 1441-c. 1470 |
| Artists |
Zanobi Strozzi |
| Decoration |
Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink. |
| Dimensions in mm |
330 x 240 (215 x 135) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 177 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
Mostly quires of 10 leaves. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Dark brown leather. |
| Provenance |
Isaac ben Obadiah ben David of Forli, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Florence, 5201 [1441] (f. 169v).
Jehiel ben Joab of Montalcino: sold the two volumes to Israel ben Isaac of Pisa for 100 florins: sale record, Florence, 1461 (f. 177v).
Marchion: inscribed with his name (f. 12).
Luigi da Bologna: censor's signature, 1601 (f. 176v); a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active at the end of the sixteenth, beginning of seventeenth century), see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117.
Camillo Jaghel: censor's signature, 1613 (f. 176v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.
Renato da Modena: censor's signature, 1626 (f. 177v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 132-133.
Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 (1997), 131-53): purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 August 1854 (see Add 19944). |
| Notes |
Festival prayer book in two volumes: Add 19944 (Vol 1) and Add 19945 (Vol 2). Ruling is visible. |
| Select bibliography |
George Margoliouth, 'A Florentine Service-Book at the British Museum' Jewish Quarterly Review, 16 (1903), 73-97.
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), II, no. 627.
Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
Mendel Metzger, 'Two Centuries (13th-14th) of Hebrew Manuscript Ilumination in Italy', in Die Juden in ihrer Mittelalterlichen Umwelt ed. by Alfred Ebenbauer and Klaus Zatloukal (Vienna: Böhnlau, 1991), pp. 131-50 (pp. 136-37).
Nurit Pasternak, 'A Meeting Point of Hebrew and Latin Manuscript Production: a Fifteenth Century Florentine Hebrew Scribe, Isaac ben Obadia of Forli', Scrittura e civilta, 25 (2001), 185-200.
Nurit Pasternak, 'Hebrew Hand-Written Books as Testimonies to Christian-Jewish Contacts in Quattrocento Florence', in L'interculturalita dell'ebraismo a cura di Mauro Perani (Ravenna: Longo, 2004), pp. 161-71 (pp. 167-68).
Malachi Bet-Arie, 'How Scribes Disclosed their Names in Hebrew Manuscripts', in Omnia in Eo: Studies on Jewish Books and Libraries in Honour of Adri Offenberg, Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam ed. by Irene Zwiep (Leuven: Peeters, 2006), pp. 144-57 (p. 156).
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 82.
Nurit Pasternak, Together and Apart: Hebrew Manuscripts as Testimonies to Encounters of Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-century Florence : the Makings, the Clients, Censorship [Hebrew] (Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Senate of the Hebrew University, 2009), pp. 235-38. |
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f. 71v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 79
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 140
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 164
Moses |
f. 164
Moses |
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