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Detailed record for Oriental 2736
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| Title |
Prayer book (siddur), Italian rite, with the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Five Scrolls (Hamesh megillot), and the Haftarot for the entire year in the margins. |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Bertinoro) |
| Date |
1390 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Italian square script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe (?) |
| Decoration |
1 full-page miniature of a coat of arms, in colours and gold (f. 2v). 1 full foliate border in colours and gold (f. 10). Numerous texts in decorated frames and inhabited by birds, animals, hybrids, in colours (ff. 3v-9). Many initial-word panels with pen-flourishing inhabited by birds and hybrids, in colours.
Many pen-flourishing and foliate motifs around passages sometimes inhabited by hybrids and birds. |
| Dimensions in mm |
140 x 90 (105 x 70) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 479 (+ 1unfoliated parchment flyleaf) |
| Collation |
61 quires: i2 (1-2), ii8 (ff. 2a-9), iii8 (ff. 10-17), iv8 (ff. 18-25), v8 (ff. 26-33), vi8 (ff. 34-41), vii8 (ff. 42-49), viii8 (ff. 50-57), ix8 (ff. 58-65), x8 (ff. 66-73), xi8 (ff. 74-81), xii8 (ff. 82-89), xiii8 (ff. 90-97), xiv8 (ff. 98-105), xv8 (ff. 106-113), xvi8 (ff. 114-121), xvii8 (ff. 122-129), xviii8 (ff. 130-137), xix8 (ff. 138-145), xx8 (ff. 146-153), xxi8 (ff. 154-161), xxii8 (ff. 162-169), xxiii8 (ff. 170-177), xxiv8 (ff. 178-185), xxv8 (ff. 186-193), xxvi8 (ff. 194-201), xxvii8 (ff. 202-209), xxviii8 (ff. 210-217), xxix8 (ff. 218-225), xxx8 (ff. 226-233), xxxi8 (ff. 234-241), xxxii8 (ff. 242-249), xxxiii8 (ff. 250-257), xxxiv8 (ff. 258-265), xxxv8 (ff. 266-273), xxxvi8 (ff. 274-281), xxxvii8 (ff. 282-289), xxxviii8 (ff. 290-297), xxxix8 (ff. 298-305), xl8 (ff. 306-313), xli8 (ff. 314-321), xlii8 (ff. 322-329), xliii8 (ff. 330-337), xliv8 (ff. 338-345), xlv8 (ff. 346-353), xlvi8 (ff. 354-361), xlvii8 (ff. 362-369), xlviii8 (ff. 370-377), xlix8 (ff. 378-385), l8 (ff. 386-393), li8 (ff. 394-401), lii8 (ff. 402-409), liii8 (ff. 410-417), liv8 (ff. 418-425), lv8 (ff. 426-433), lvi8 (ff. 434-441), lvii8 (ff. 442-449), lviii8 (ff. 450-457), lix8 (ff. 458-465), lx8 (ff. 466-473), lxi8-2 (ff. 474-479). Catchwords. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Brown leather, tooled, with clasps. |
| Provenance |
Colophon without names: dated 1 Iyyar 5150 [1390] (f. 479).
Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe, dayyan (judge) in Pisa, the first owner and probably the scribe: inscribed with his name (f. 3v).
Joseph Levi ha-Qatan: his name inscribed in partially illegible inscriptions: [5]306 [1546] (f. 1).
Inscription in Italian, dated: 19 Agugust 1815 (inner front cover).
Chaim Horowitz: purchased from him on 26 January 1884 (inner back cover). |
| Notes |
Blank pages: ff. 1v, 2, [2a recto] and [2a verso].
Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible. |
| Select bibliography |
Aaron Freimann, 'Jewish Scribes in Medieval Italy', in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950), pp. 231-342 (no. 80a).
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. 617.
Hava Lazar, 'Jonah, the Tower, and the Lions: an Eighteenth Century Italian Silver Book Binding', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), pp. 58-73 (pp. 68-69).
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.
Mortara Luisa Ottolenghi, “Manoscritti Emiliagno-Romagnoli del XIV-XV secolo. Un punto d’Incontro tra miniatori cristiani ed ebrei?” in Atti del terzo convegno tenuto a Idice, Bologna, nei giorni 9-11 novembre 1982 Associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo. Convegno (3rd: 1982: Idice, Italy), (Roma: Carucci, 1985), pp. 103-13 (pp. 109-11).
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 74. |
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f. 2v
Coat of arms |
f. 3v
Raven and lion |
f. 5v
Hare hunt |
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ff. 8v-9
Inhabited frames |
f. 10
Inhabited full border |
f. 87
Owl |
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f. 186
Dragons |
f. 186
Dragons |
f. 194
Human heads |
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f. 312v
Dragon and duck |
f. 312v
Dragon and duck |
f. 316v
Human heads |
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f. 470v
Man with lulav |
f. 470v
Man with lulav |
f. 479v
Inhabited frame |
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f. 479v
Inhabited frame |
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