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Title:
Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
222 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Add MS 26986

Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

Festival prayer book (maḥzor), Ashkenazi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-222v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] .

ff. 1r-22v
Title: Services for the second day of the New Year

Shaḥarit (folio 1r) contains the same poetical pieces as in Or. 42.

Musaf starts on folio 12r (partly the same as in Or. 42).

ff. 22v-175r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ma῾ariv begins on folio 22v, shaḥarit - on folio 40v (the same as in Or. 42, seliḥot begin on folio 77v), musaf - on folio 140v, musaf - folio 100r (the same as in Or. 42), minḥah - folio 141r (seliḥot begin on folio 146v), ne῾ilah - folio 163r. Between folios 169r-170r additional poetical pieces for Yom Kipur are written in a later handwriting.

ff. 175r-219v
Title: Services for Sukot

Shaḥarit for the first day starts on folio 175r, yotser for the second day - folio 180v, ma῾ariv for the eigth day - folio 188r, yotser for the eigth day - 191r, yotser for Simḥat Torah - folio 201r, Hoshanot - folio 208r, yotser for Sabbath - folio 216v (all the same as in Harley 5701).

ff. 219v-222v
Title: Services for special Sabbaths (fragment)

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 222 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

222 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

There are catchwords at the end of the quires.

Quires are numbered with Hebrew letters.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Leaves missing after folio 82 and 218.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and plummet ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are indistinguishable.

Censor's erasures: folios 40r, 85v, 86r.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square, punctuated, of 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,986.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

1865

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 98: 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): inscribed, folio [224v] .

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. 674.

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).

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