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Add MS 19944

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Add MS 19944
Title:
Maḥzor, Italian rite (vol. 1)
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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:
197 folios (iv+197+iv)
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Start Date:
1441
End Date:
1441
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1441
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Camillo Jaghel
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 11th century
Luigi da Bologna
Marchion
Renato da Modena
Ya῾aḳov ben Shelomoh
Yitsḥaḳ ben Ovadiah ben Daṿid of Forli
Zanobi Strozzi
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Add MS 19944

Maḥzor, Italian rite (vol. 1)

Contents

Festival prayer book according to the Italian rite, volume 1.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-197v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

f. 4r, 71v, 112r, 112v, 113r, 113v, 114r, 114v, 115r, 115v, 116r, 117v, 121v, 124r, 127v, 131v, 137r 17 initial-word panels decorated with floral borders, which are sometimes inhabited by putti and birds, in colours and gold.

Numerous initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing, in blue and red ink.

1 micrography. f. 18v

Filiation: For volume 2 see [BL] Add MS 19945.
ff. 2r-3v
Title: Index
ff. 4r-19r
Title: Keter malkhut
Title: כתר מלכות
Author: Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century אבן גבירול, שלמה בן יהודה, 1021-1058
Filiation: Cf. Add MS 19064, 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. 633.

Following Keter malkhut are 72 verses (f. 7v), the letters belonging to Shem ha-meforash connected with the verses, being written after each verse.

The 72 verses are followed by a Yehi ratson, ten biblical verses (beginning with Genesis 1:1), Psalms 29 and 4, a number of prayers and benedictions, including a kabbalistic note on the 72 Divine Names, Psalm 47 and a diagram of the seven-branched menorah made up of the words of Psalm 47 (f. 18v).

ff. 19r-29r
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 29r-43v
Title: Services for Shabat

The havdalot begin on f. 41v.

ff. 43v-46v
Title: Services for Rosh ḥodesh
ff. 46v-51r
Title: Services for Ḥanukah
ff. 51r-56v
Title: Ta῾anit
ff. 56v-61v
Title: Seder arba῾ parashiyot
ff. 61v-67r
Title: Services for Purim
ff. 67r-112r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

The prayers for Pesaḥ begin on folio 69r, and the Hagadah begins on f. 71v.

The portions from the Pentateuch and the Prophets that are to be read on the first two days and ḥol ha-mo῾ed of the Passover feast are given on ff. 87r-88r, 90v-94v.

For the hafṭarot, the Targum is also given.

ff. 112r-139v
Title: Masekhet avot

Preceded by Shemuel ibn Tibbon's Introduction and Hebrew translation of Maimonides' Shemonah peraḳim, and accompanied by two commentaries, one of Maimondes and the other the same as is contained in Maḥzor Viṭry (probably by Jacob ben Samson of Coucy).

ff. 139v-168r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot

Begins with a lengthy liturgical direction concerning Shavu῾ot, in which Yehudah he-Ḥasid, Ele῾azar of Worms, Shelomoh and Ele῾azar Kohen Tsedeḳ are mentioned.

Contains many additional poetical pieces.

ff. 168r-172r
Title: Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-Tamuz
ff. 172r-197v
Title: Tish῾ah be-Av

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 197 folios (iv+197+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 235 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

21 quires: i4-1 (ff. 1-3), ii6 (ff. 4-9), iii-xx10 (ff. 10-189), xxi10-2 (ff. 190-197).

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

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 indistinguishable.

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 of volume 2, Add MS 19945, f. 169v. Decorated by Zanobi Strozzi.

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather.

Spine: 'Machazor Secundum Ritum Italicum. Hebraice. Pars I. Mus. Brit. Add. Or. 19,944.'

History

Origin: 1441 Italy, Central (Florence)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ya῾aḳov ben Shelomoh: inscribed with his name (f. 1r).

Marchion: inscribed with his name (ff. 17r, 190v, 191r).

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (f. 176v of volume 2); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Luigi da Bologna: inscribed with his name: 'Visto e coretto per mi fra Luigi da Bolgona del 1601' (f. 176v of volume 2); 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 of volume 2); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

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).

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. 626.
    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

    [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.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

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