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Title:
Maḥzor Viṭry (vol. 2)
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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:
268 folios
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Start Date:
1242
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1242-1299
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Names:
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
mi-Ṿiṭri, Śimḥah, 1050-1105
mi-Ṿiṭri, Śimḥah, 1050-1105
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Add MS 27201

Maḥzor Viṭry (vol. 2)

Contents

Maḥzor Viṭry, volume 2.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-268v
Title: Maḥzor Viṭry
Title: מחזור ויטרי

The Vitry Maḥzor contains decisions and rules concerning religious practise, besides responsa by Rashi and other authorities, both contemporary and earlier. The work is cited as early as the 12th century in Jacob Tam's Sefer ha-Yashar as having been compiled by Simḥah. Various additions were afterward made to this maḥzor, a large proportion of which, designated by the letter ת' ("tosafot"), are by Isaac ben Dorbolo (Durbal). Other additions are by Avraham ben Natan Yarhi, author of Ha-Manhig, and are designated by the letters אב"ן, his initials. This copy of the work contains also Perush Pirḳe avot, not present in any other manuscript of Maḥzor Viṭry.

Folios 261-268 contain a calendar (imperfect at the end). The section of Seder ha-teḳufot ṿeha-moladot (folio 267v) begins as follows: 'according to the number of the year 5002 A.M., it being the fifth year of the 264th cycle.' It seems therefore that the copy was not finished before 5002, i.e. 1242.

Author: Śimḥah, mi-Ṿiṭri, -1105 שמחה בן שמואל, מויטרי
Filiation: Cf [Neubauer_1994] 1100; Biblioteca Palatina Parma 2574 (De Rossi catalogue no. 159); JTS Library MS no. 8092.

References

[Vitry_2003]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 268 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 385 × 300 mm.
Dimensions (written): 290 × 205 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

33 quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires, mostly cut away.

Condition

Defective at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Maniculae.

Sections numbered in the margin in large square Hebrew letters.

A number of notes in the margin, in small semi-cursive script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French) square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, of the 13th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor Vitry. Vol. II. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,201.'

History

Origin: 1242-1299 France

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (fl. 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1607 (folio 183r of volume 1); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

1865

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 314: 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.

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. 655.

Bibliography

    [Vitry_2003] שמואל, מויטרי שמחה בן, and mi-Ṿiṭri Śimḥah. 'Maḥazor Ṿiṭri / Le-Rabenu Śimḥah Mi-Ṿiṭri.'יו״ל במהדורה מתוקנת עפ״י כתבי יד עם הערות, הארות, שינויי נוסחאות, מראי מקום, סיכומי שיטות ומבוא / מאת אריה בן לאאמו״ר הגר״י גולדשמידט..; Yo. l. be-Mahad. metuḳenet ʿa. pi kitve yad ʿim heʿarot, Heʾarot, Shinuye nusḥaʾot, Marʾe maḳom, Sikume shiṭot u-mavo / Me-et Aryeh ben ha-g. R. Y. Goldshmidṭ.. ירושלם: מכון אוצר הפוסקים 2003 or 2004, Yerushalayim, 2003.
    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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