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Title:
Maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kipur and Sukot, Ashkenazi rite
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Record Type (Level):
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380 folios
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1349
Date Range:
1300-1349
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CE
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Names:
Eli῾ezer bar David
Giuseppe Almanzi
Yeḳutiel
Yitsḥaḳ
Ḥanah bat Yeḥiel
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Add MS 26897

Maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kipur and Sukot, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kipur and Sukot, in the Ashkenazi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-380v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] .

1 folio with text framed by an arcade in ink. f. 121v

2 decorated initial words framed by an arcade in ink. f. 47v, 101r

6 decorated initial words, in ink. f. 18v, 32v, 37r, 84r, 223r, 310r

1 initial word in colours. f. 341r

1 decorated catchword. f. 37v

ff. 1r-46v
Title: Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit begins on folio 1r, musaf starts on folio 18v.

ff. 46v-101r
Title: Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit begins on folio 46v, musaf begins on folio 74v.

ff. 101r-319v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ma῾ariv begins on folio 101r (kol nidre is distinguished by a pen and ink ornamentation), shaḥarit begins on folio 121r (seliḥot start on folio 170r sqq.), musaf on folio 223r, minḥah on folio 280v, ne῾ilah on folio 309v.

f. 380v
Title: Services for Sukot.

Shaḥarit for the first day begins on folio 320r; yotser for the second day, folio 333v; yotser for the sabath of ḥol ha-mo῾ed, folio 338v; hosh῾anot, folio 341r sqq.; ma῾ariv for the second night of Sukot, folio 351v; services for the eigth day of Sukot, folio 354r; shaḥarit for Shemini ῾atseret, folio 358r; prayers for Simḥat Torah, folio 370v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the first half of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 380 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 270 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

380 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

39 quires: i5 (folios 1-5), ii8 (folios 6-13), iii8 (folios 14-21), iv8 (folios 22-29), v8 (folios 30-37), vi8 (folios 38-45), vii8 (folios 46-53), viii8 (folios 54-61), ix8 (folios 62-69), x8 (folios 70-77), xi8 (folios 78-85), xii8 (folios 86-93), xiii8 (folios 94-101), xiv8 (folios 102-109), xv8 (folios 110-117), xvi8 (folios 118-125), xvii8 (folios 126-133), xviii8 (folios 134-141), xix8 (folios 142-149), xx8 (folios 150-157), xxi8 (folios 158-165), xxii8 (folios 166-173), xxiii8 (folios 174-181), xxiv8 (folios 182-189), xxv8 (folios 190-197), xxvi8 (folios 198-205), xxvii6 (folios 206-211), xxviii8-1 (folios 212-218), xxix4 (folios 219-222), xx8 (folios 223-230), xxi8 (folios 231-238), xxii8 (folios 239-246), xxiii8 (folios 247-254), xxiv8 (folios 255-262), xxv8 (folios 263-270), xxvi8 (folios 271-278), xxvii8 (folios 279-286), xxviii8 (folios 287-294), xxix8 (folios 295-302), xxx8 (folios 303-310), xxxi8 (folios 311-318), xxxii8 (folios 319-326), xxxiii8 (folios 327-334), xxxiv8 (folios 335-342), xxxv8 (folios 343-350), xxxvi8 (folios 351-358), xxxvii8 (folios 359-366), xxxviii8 (folios 367-374), xxxix8-2 (folios 375-380).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 10 21

Written lines: 9 20

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Watermark on folio [381] of a monogram VCF.

Numoerous marginal notes, containing a number of passages and phrases missing in the text, some variant readings, etc.

Folios 206-222 were incorporated later. Accordingly, the catchword on folio 205v fits to the text on folio 223.

Numerous words and passages have been crossed out by a censor (e.g., folios 2v, 7r, 7v, 12r, 15r, 29v, 33r, 46r, 68v, 71r, 159v-160r, 164r-164v, 165v-166r, 241v, 262v-263v, 309r, 319r).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ: the name Yitsḥaḳ is marked many times, e.g. folios 6v, 20v, 47r, 52r, 57r, 185v, 267r, 268v, 320r.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor According to the German Use. Vol. II. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,897.'

History

Origin: 1st half of the 14th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Eli῾ezer bar David: sold to Ḥanah bat Yeḥiel on Thursday 23 of Adar Sheni, [5]266 [1506]: inscribed in a purchase note (folio 380v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile: his manuscript no. 6; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153).

Yiddish inscription, undated (folio 380v).

Ḥanah bat Yeḥiel: given to her son Yeḳutiel as a gift on 23 Adar [5]280 [1520]: inscribed in a note (folio 380v).

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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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. 657.

Bibliography

    [Davidson_1924] Israel Davidson. 'Otsar Ha-Shirah Ṿeha Piyuṭ : Mi-Zeman Ḥatimat Kitve Ha- Ḳodesh ʿad Reshit Teḳufat Ha-Haśkalaḥ.'New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Ameriḳah 1924-693 1933, 1924.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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