Luogo di origine: Sepharad, Castille (?)‎

Datazione: 14th century‎

Supporto materiale: Parchment. Medium quality: holes (e.g. ff. 32, 115, 125), angular cut or shape of parchment in bottom or lateral margin (e.g. ff. 56, 113, 125). Hair and flesh sides distinguishable.

Dimensioni: I + 142 + I

Formato: 149-150 x 108-111 mm

Numerazione delle pagine: Printed foliation in Arabic numerals from right to left in black ink in the top left corner of each folio.‎

Composizione dei fascicoli: 19 quires of a variety of folios: ‎‎1 bifolio I (1r-2v); 1 quinion II (3r-10v)*; 1 quaternion III (11r-18v); 1 quinion IV (19r-26v)*2; 1 quinion V (27r-34v)*3; 1 quinion VI (35r-42v)*4; 1 quinion VII (43r-50v)*5 ; 1 binion VIII (51r-54v) ; 1 quaternion IX (55r-62v) ; 1 quaternion X (63r-70v) ; 1 quaternion XI (71r-78v) ; 1 quaternion XII (79r-86v) ; 1 quinion XIII (87r-94v)*6 ; 1 quaternion XIV (95r-102v) ; 1 quinion XV (103r-110v)*7 ; 1 quaternion XVI (111r-118v) ; 1 quinion XVII (119r-126v)*8 ; 1 quinion XVIII (127r-134v)*9 ; 1 senion XIX (135r-142v)*10‎
*: stubs between ff. 4v-5r and 7v-8r ‎
‎*2: stubs between ff. 20v- 21r and 23v-24r ‎
‎*3: stubs between ff. 28v-29r and 31v-32r ‎
‎*4: stubs between ff. 37v-38r and 40v-41r ‎
‎*5: stubs between ff. 45v-46r and 48v-49r ‎
‎*6: stubs between ff. 88v-89r and 91v-92r ‎
‎*7: stubs between ff. 104v-105r and 107v-108r ‎
‎*8: stubs between ff. 121v-122r and 124v-125r ‎
‎*9: stubs between ff. 129v-130r and 132v-133r ‎
‎*10: stubs between ff. 136v-137r; 137v-138r and 140v-141r ‎
‎ (J. Prijs did not take these stubs into consideration when counting the quires).
Presence of catchwords at the end of each quire.‎‎

Condizione: Well preserved manuscript with the exception of the following: humidity stains and parchment folds throughout the manuscript (e.g. ff. 136v-137r); the first 11 folios of the manuscript, whose margins and partial text have been mutilated (ff. 1r-11v); ripped off right hand corner of folio 62; the corner and partial bottom margin of folios 15 to 26 have disappeared due to insects; insect hole f. 35; tare f. 136.
‎ Restoration f. 101.‎

Disposizione della pagina: Hardpoint ruling and inner and outer pricking throughout the manuscript. 1 + 1 columns of text. 13 traced lines for 13 written lines, except for folio 38r which has 1 + 2 columns and 14 traced lines for 13 written lines. End of lines are respected elongation and compression of letters as well as some word endings which overlap into the left lateral margin (e.g. f. 78v-79r) or complete words overlapping into the margin (e.g. ff. 63r, 73r, 131r).‎ Full page layout with inner and outer indentations around the initial words.‎

Tipo di scrittura e mani: One scribe copied this manuscript in a Sephardic vocalized script. The script is a square medium module for the main text and a large module for the initial words. A small module bookhand script is used for indications between prayers.

Aggiunte: Minor corrections and additions in the margins e.g. ff. 22v, 54v, 63r, 101v, 128r.‎
ff. 60v, 61v: long notes in a bookhand script in a dark brown ink in the right lateral margin.‎
Marginal doodles: ff. 13r, 14r, 63r.‎

Legatura: 19th century cardboard binding covered with a ‘clotted’ marbled paper wrapper (158 x 111 mm). Leather covered spine with 4 tooled bands. Between the 3rd and 4th band is a paper sticker with the following shelfmark printed on it: Ms Heid. 125.‎

Provenienza del manoscritto: This manuscript was part of the collection of Moritz Heidenheim (1824-1898), a German Jewish scholar from Worms, who converted to Anglicanism. After several years studying in London, Heidenheim came to Zurich in 1864 and became an Anglican chaplain, where stayed until his death in 1898.
However, previous to the acquisition of this manuscript by M. Heidenheim, nothing is known of its tribulations after its compilation by a Sephardic scribe during the 14th century.

Acquisizione del manoscritto: In 1899, the collection of 211 Hebrew manuscripts (189 paper and 22 parchment manuscripts) and 2587 printed books entered the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich. This collection encompasses a wide variety of subjects, including biblical, exegetical, halakhic, liturgical, grammatical, lexicographical, kabbalistical, astronomical and apologetical literature, and conveys above all, Moritz Heidenheim's scholarly and scientific interests,as a well-known 19th century bibliophile (O. Franz-Klauser, 2006, pp.116, 241).