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Add MS 19945

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032-003313837
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Add MS 19945
Title:
Maḥzor, Italian rite (vol. 2)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
177 folios (iv+177+iv)
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Start Date:
1441
End Date:
1441
Date Range:
1441
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Camillo Jaghel
Luigi da Bologna
Renato da Modena
Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Montalcino
Yisra᾿el ben Yitsḥaḳ of Pisa
Yitsḥaḳ ben Ovadiah ben Daṿid of Forli
Zanobi Strozzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19945

Maḥzor, Italian rite (vol. 2)

Contents

Festival prayer book according to the Italian rite, volume 2.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-177v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
Filiation: For volume 1 see Add MS 19944.

Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink. Illuminated initial-word panels on f. 79r.

Colophon: תם ונשלם תהלה לאל עולם פה בעיר פירינצה על ידי יצחק סופר יזיא בכמ"ר עובדיהישר"ו היום יום א' [...] אב שנת חמשת אלפים ומתאים ואחת לבריאת עולם. f. 169v
ff. 1r-52r
Title: Piyutim
Title: פיוטים

A Hebrew enumeration of pieces reaches no. 162.

ff. 53r-57v
Title: Parashiyot
Title: פרשיות

A series of biblical readings for special days.

ff. 58v-60v
Title: Tefilot
Title: תפילות

Two special prayers.

ff. 61r-68r
Title: Seder ma῾amadot
Title: סדר מעמדות

Psalms added in the margin by later hands.

ff. 68v-79r
Title: ῾Inyan Rosh ha-Shanah
Title: ענין ראש השנה
ff. 79r-146r
Title: Seder Yom Kipur
Title: סדר יום כפור

Ff. 81v sqq.: seliḥot le-lel Tsom ha-Kipur. Ff. 98v sqq.: seliḥot le-shaḥarit Tsom ha-Kipur. Ff. 113r sqq.: tefilat musaf. Ff. 126r sqq.: tefilat ha-minḥah. Ff. 132v sqq.: seliḥot le-minḥat Tsom ha-Kipur. Ff. 136v sqq.: tefilat ne῾ilah. Ff. 141r sqq. : seliḥot li-ne῾ilah le-rabi Binyamin. Ff. 142v sqq.: seliḥot le-aḳedah.

ff. 146v-177v
Title: ῾Inyan ḥag ha-Sukot
Title: ענין חג הסוכות

Ff. 151 sqq.: tefilat musaf. Ff. 154v-159r: Hosh῾anot. Folios 170r-176v: Additional liturgical pieces. Ff. 159r sqq.: inyan Shemini Atseret.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 177 folios (iv+177+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Losses to leaves at edges.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 37

Written lines: 37

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, and Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ ben Ovadiah ben Daṿid of Forli (Gaio di Servadio), active in Florence 1441-1470, inscribed in the colophon, folio 169v. Decorated by Zanobi Strozzi.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather.

Spine: 'Machazor Secundum Ritum Italicum. Hebraice. Pars II. Mus. Brit. Add. Or. 19,945.'

History

Origin: 1441 Italy, Central (Florence)

Provenance and Acquisition

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (f. 176v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Luigi da Bologna: inscribed with his name: 'Visto et coretto per mi fra Luigi da Bolgona dal 1601' (f. 176v); a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active 1585-1624), see [Popper_1969] 104, and appendix § 112-117.

Renato da Modena: inscribed with his name, 1626 (f. 177v); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Montalcino: sold the two volumes to Yisra᾿el ben Yitsḥaḳ of Pisa for 100 florins: sale record, Florence, 1461 (f. 177v).

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 12 August 1854: inscribed (back flyleaf (v)v of volume 1).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    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), no. 627.
    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.
    [Tahan_2007] 80-81;
    [Metzger_1982] 304;
    [Ebenbauer_1991] 136-137;
    [Pasternak_2009] 135-138;
    [Perani_2004] 161-171;
    [Zwiep_2006] 144-157.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.
    [Metzger_1982] Thérèse Metzger. 'Jewish Life in the Middle Ages : Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries / Thérèse and Mendel Metzger.'New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982.
    [Ebenbauer_1991] Alfred Ebenbauer, Klaus Zatloukal, and Universität Wien. Geisteswissenschaft Fakultät. 'Die Juden in Ihrer Mittelalterlichen Umwelt / Alfred Ebenbauer, Klaus Zatloukal (Hgg.).'Wien: Böhlau, 1991.
    [Pasternak_2009] פסטרנק, נורית, and Nurit Pasternak. 'Be-Yaḥad u-Leḥud - Kitve Yad ʿIvriyim Be-Firentsah Be-Meʾah Ha-Ḥamesh-ʿeśreh : ʿeduyot Le-Mifgash Ben Yehudim Le-Notsrim : Melekhet Ha-Sefer, Ha-Tsarkhanim, Ha-Tsenzurah / Nurit Pasṭernaḳ.'ירושלים: חמו"ל, תשס"ט 2009, Jerusalem, 2009.
    [Perani_2004] Mauro Perani. 'L’interculturalità Dell’ebraismo : Atti Del Convegno Internazionale, Bertinoro-Ravenna, 26-28 Maggio 2003 / a Cura Di Mauro Perani.'Ravenna: Longo, 2004.
    [Zwiep_2006] A. K Offenberg, and Irene E. Zwiep. 'Omnia in Eo : Studies on Jewish Books and Libraries in Honour of Adri Offenberg, Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam / Edited by Irene Zwiep ... [et Al.].'Leuven: Peeters, 2006.

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