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Add MS 26970
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- Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite
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- 197 folios
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- Languages:
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- Start Date:
- 1308
- End Date:
- 1314
- Date Range:
- 1308-1314
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Add MS 26970
Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite
Contents
A festival prayer book, with additional pieces by Isaac ben Meir of Dueren.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-167vTitle: MaḥzorTitle: מחזורAccording to the Ashkenazi rite.
3 inhabited initial words/initial-word panels, in dark brown ink. f. 50r, 87r, 106v
4 decorated initial words, in ink. f. 55r, 60v, 118r, 118v
3 figural drawings in dark brown ink. f. 6v, 81v, 82r
Drawings at the catchwords. f. 14v, 22v, 30v, 38v, 46v, 54v, 62v, 82v, 90v, 146v, 162v
1 carmina figurata. f. 74r
ff. 167v-177vTitle: Sha῾are DuraTitle: שערי דוראParts of Isur ṿe-heter only.
ff. 179r-181vTitle: ῾Igul rav Naḥshon Ga᾿onTitle: עגול רב נחשון גאוןff. 182v-183rTitle: Luaḥ teḳufotTitle: לוחFor the years 5268-5295.
ff. 183v-183vTitle: Seder ha-parashiyotTitle: סדר הפרשיותff. 183v-196vTitle: MinhagimTitle: מנהגיםPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 197 foliosDimensions (leaf): 225 × 165 mm.Dimensions (written): 170/165 × 115/110 mm.Foliation:197 folios (+ 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 older paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
16 quires: i5 (folios 2-6), ii8 (folios 7-14), iii-ix8 (folios 15-70), x4 (folios 71-74), xi-xxiii8 (folios 75-178), xxiv6 (folios 179-184), xxv5 (folios 185-189), xxvi8 (folios 190-197).
Catchwords at the end of each quire, some of them are decorated.
Condition
Damp entry at edges and ends, tidemarks and mould darkening.
Losses at ends have been infilled.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 23
Written lines: 22
Uniform layout.
Visible hard-point ruling.
Initial words in large square characters.
Numerous erasures, presumably by a censor (e.g., folios 15v, 16r, 20r, 59v, 75v, 78r, 79r, 84r, 131r, 155r; entire pages folios 140v-141r).
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of 14th century.
Additions:Date 74 [1314] in an inscription written by the scribe (folio 167v).
Includes a chart of the nineteen-year cycles starting from 1307 (folio 182r).
Teḳufot (equinoxes and solstices) in the calendar for the period 1308-1335 (folios 182v-183r).
A later addition to the calendar for the period 1352-1370 (folio 178v).
Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (folio 197v).
Inscription with the title (folio 1r).
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Machzor. German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,970.'
History
Origin: 1308-1314 ; GermanyProvenance and Acquisition
Moses ha-Levi: mentioned in an otherwise blurred inscription, 14th or 15th century (folio 178v).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript: inscribed (f. [198v]); his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co. (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26970 (digital images currently unavailable)
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. 151., vol. IV.Funding of Cataloguing
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