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Detailed record for Additional 26957
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| Title |
Prayer book (siddur), Italian rite |
| Origin |
Italy, N. |
| Date |
1469 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square (punctuated) and Italian semi-cursive (unpunctuated) script, Sephardi punctuated square script (on ff. 113-113v) |
| Scribe |
Joel ben Simeon Feibush |
| Artists |
Joel ben Simeon Feibush |
| Decoration |
1 full foliate border in colours (f. 113). 8 textual drawings in the margins in brown ink (39, 39v, 42, 43v, 45, 45v, 55v, 74v). 5 drawings of animals or dragons accompanying initial words, in ink (ff. 3, 37, 45, 53v, 63v). Numerous decorated initial words and initial-word panels, in sepia, violet and red ink. 8 marginal drawings in ink (ff. 17, 20v, 25, 25v, 51v, 71, 81, 105). Manicula (f. 89v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
140 x 95 (90/85 x 55) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 113 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older paper flyleaf and 3 modern paper flyleaves – all unfoliated – at the end) |
| Collation |
11 quires: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii10 (ff. 11-20), iii10 (ff. 21-30), iv10 (ff. 31-40), v10 (ff. 41-50), vi10 (ff. 51-60), vii10 (ff. 61-70), viii10 (ff. 71-80), ix12 (ff. 81-92), x10 (ff. 93-102), xi10+1 (ff. 103-113). Catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Joel ben Simeon, the scribe: inscribed with his name as 'the scribe, Yoel bar Shimeon' in the colophon, 26 Kislev 5[2]30 [1469] (f. 112).
Menahem ben Samuel and his daughter Maraviglia, patrons: inscribed with their names in the colophon, 26 Kislev 5[2]30 [1469] (f. 112).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), Italian bibliophile: his manuscript no. 67: inscribed (f. [115v]); 322 Hebrew manuscripts were acquired from his library in October 1865 through 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): inscribed (f. [115v]). |
| Notes |
Imperfect at the beginning: a large portion is lacking.
The scribe gave the date erroneously as 26 Kislev 5030 [which would be 1269] instead of 5230 [1469].
Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. |
| Select bibliography |
Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 15 (in the Hebrew part).
Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-shirah veha piyut: mi-zeman hatimat kitve ha- kodesh ad reshit tekufat ha-haskalah [Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry] (New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Amerikah, 1924-1933) [on the text].
Michael Fooner, 'Joel ben Simeon Illuminator of Hebrew MSS. In the XVth Century', The Jewish Quarterly Review, 27 (1937), 217-32.
Joseph Gutmann, 'Thirteen Manuscripts in Search of Author: Joel Ben Simeon, 15th Century Scribe-Artist', Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, 9 (1970), 76-95.
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), IV, p. 190.
Malachi Beit-Arie, 'Joel ben Simeon’s Manuscripts: a Codicologer’s View', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), 25-39 (pp. 28-29).
Sheila Edmund, 'The Place of the London Haggadah in the Work of Joel ben Simeon', Journal of Jewish Art, 7 (1980), 25-34 (pp. 25-26).
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.
The Ashkenazi Haggadah: a Hebrew Manuscript of the mid-15th Century From the Collections of the British Library, notes on the illuminations, transcription and English translation by David Goldstein (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985), p. 9 [facsimile].
Bezalel Narkiss, 'The Art of the Washington Haggadah', in The Washington Haggadah: A Facsimile Edition of an Illuminated Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscript at the Library of Congress Signed by Joel ben Simeon, ed. M. M. Weinstein (Washington: Library of Congress, 1991), pp. 27-101.
Yael Zirlin, 'Joel Meets Johannes: a Fifteenth-century Jewish-Christian Collaboration in Manuscript iIlumination', Viator, 26 (1995), 265-82.
Yael Zirlin, 'Celui qui se cache derrière l’image: colophons d’enlumineurs dans les manuscrits hébraïques', Revue des Etudes Juives, 155 (1997), 33-52.
Evelyn M. Cohen, Joel ben Simeon Revisited: Reflections of the Scribe’s Artistic Repertoire in a Cinquecento Haggadah, in A Crown for a King; Studies in Jewish Art, History and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser, ed. by Shalom Sabar, Steven Fine and William M. Kramer (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2000), pp. 59-71.
Shlomo Zucker, The Moskowitz Mahzor of Joel ben Simeon: Ashkenazi Italian Scribe and Illuminator of Hebrew Manuscripts: Ms. Heb. 4=1384 (Jerusalem: Jewish National and University Library, 2005), p. xiii.
Yael Zirlin, 'Meir Jaffe and Joel Ben Simeon: Working Relations between Jewish Scribes and a Christian Atelier,' Auskunft, 26 (2006), 287-309. |
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f. 3
Rabbit |
f. 31
Havdalah |
f. 31
Havdalah |
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f. 37
Dragons |
f. 37
Dragons |
f. 39
Bread of Affliction |
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f. 39
Bread of Affliction |
f. 39v
'We were slaves' |
f. 39v
'We were slaves' |
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f. 42
Casting the babies into the river |
f. 42
Man casting a baby into the Nile |
f. 43v
R. Eliezer and R. Akiva |
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f. 43v
R. Eliezer and R. Akiva |
f. 45
Rabban Gamliel and matzah |
f. 45
Rabban Gamliel |
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f. 45v
Maror |
f. 45v
Bitter herb |
f. 53v
Dragons |
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f. 53v
Dragons |
f. 55v
Woman |
f. 55v
Woman |
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f. 63v
Dog |
f. 74v
Confession |
f. 74v
Woman |
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f. 112
Colophon |
f. 112
Colophon |
f. 113
Full foliate border |
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