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Title:
Maḥzor
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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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135 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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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Anshel Humel Segal
Shim῾on ben Eli῾ezer
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Add MS 18967

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book with services for the special Sabbaths, Pesaḥ and Shavu῾ot according to the German rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-135v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

There is a number of directions in later cursive writing.

f. 2r, 8v 2 decorated and inhabited initial-word panels, in colours.

1 decorated initial word in ink. f. 22r

f. 40r Pen and ink drawing of a hybrid and fleur-de-lis (with the owner's inscription).

ff. 1r-32v
Title: The four special Sabbaths and Purim

Sheḳalim, folio 1v; Parashah Zekhor, folio 8v; Purim, folio 16r; Parashah Parah, folio 22r; Parashat ha-ḥodesh, folio 26v.

ff. 32v-38r
Title: Yotser le-Shabat ha-gadol
ff. 38r-88v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Ma῾ariv for the first night, folio 38r; shaḥarit, folio 39v; musaf, folio 44v; ma῾ariv for the second day, folio 53r; shaḥarit for the second day, folio 56r; yotser le-Shabat be-ḥulo shel mo῾ed, folio 63v; end of ma῾ariv for the seventh night, folio 71r; shaḥarit for the seventh day, folio 71r; ma῾ariv for the last day, folio 80v, shaḥarit for the last day, folio 81r.

Filiation: Cf Add MS 10456.
ff. 88v-135v
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot

Ma῾ariv for Shavu῾ot, folio 88v; shaḥarit for the first day, folio 89r; musaf, folio 99v; ma῾ariv for the second day (of R. Shim῾on), folio 113v; ma῾ariv for the third day of Shavu῾ot, folio 117v; the second day of Shavu῾ot, folio 119r.

The piyuṭim are the same as in Add MS 10456, only some pieces are missing in the series on the Ten Commandments.

The book of Ruth begins on folio 132r, and the pieces for musaf conclude the volume.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 135 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 385 × 300 mm.
Dimensions (written): 290 × 205 mm.
Foliation:

135 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

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

Condition

Leaves missing after folios 55, 70, 80, 88, 127.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are hardly distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

Pre-1600, contemporary. Beige leather, blind tooled, with metal centrepiece, cornerpieces and clasps. Boxed.

Spine: 'Machazor. Ux[...]tum Germanicum. Hebraice.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Anshel Humel Segal of Frankfurt [am Main]: inscribed, folio 2r, 135v.

Shim῾on ben Eli῾ezer: inscribed in a pen and ink floral design, Nisan [5]377 (1617): folio 40r.

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased from him on 12 June 1852, inscribed (folio [136v]).

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. 660.

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