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Title:
Maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
173 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Menaḥem Alendorf
Ḥanlein
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Add MS 18695

Maḥzor

Contents

Festival services according to the Ashkenazi rite, translated in Yiddish.

Language(s): Yiddish, Hebrew

ff. 1r-173v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

The rendering into Yiddish is free and paraphrastic, sometimes accompanied by interpretation (e.g. folio 82r) explaining the poetical pieces to women.

Colophon: ב"הל"ך ר"ח סיון רס"ד בעזרת הש"י כתבתי פה מיישטריא להיקרה מר' חנליין שת' הסליחות הללו מנחם אלנדורף. f. 173v
ff. 1r-8v
Title: [Yotser le-parashat ha-ḥodesh]

Only the end od the first piyut is preserved.

ff. 8v-17r
Title: Yotser Shabat ha-gadol
ff. 17r-32r
Title: Services for the first day of Pesaḥ
ff. 32r-49r
Title: Services for the second day of Pesaḥ

Contain shaḥarit and ma῾ariv.

ff. 49r-54r
Title: Yotser Shabat ḥulo shel mo῾ed Pesaḥ
ff. 54r-60r
Title: Services for the seventh day of Pesaḥ
ff. 60r-64r
Title: Services for the last day of Pesaḥ
ff. 64r-80v
Title: Services for the first day of Shavu῾ot
ff. 80v-98r
Title: Services for the second day of Shavu῾ot
ff. 98r-110r
Title: Services for the ninth of Av
ff. 110r-115v
Title: Services for the first day of Sukot
ff. 115v-124v
Title: Services for the second day of Sukot
ff. 124v-134v
Title: Services for Shemini ῾atseret
ff. 134v-143v
Title: Services for Simḥat Torah
ff. 143v-149v
Title: Yotser le-ḥol ha-mo῾ed shel Sukot
ff. 149v-160r
Title: Hosh῾anot
ff. 160r-173v
Title: Seliḥot

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 173 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

173 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Leaves missing after folio 59, 79, 169.

Defective at the beginning.

Folio 103 partly mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30 45

Written lines: 30 45

Non-uniform layout.

Visible vertical pencil ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Several leaves left blank without a break in the text (e.g. after folio 54v, 63v).

Catchwords on every verso, only partly preserved.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive scripts, partially punctuated, of the 15th to 16th century. Menaḥem Alendorf of the latter portion: inscribed with his name, [5]264 (1504): folio 173v.

ff. 2r-16v
,
ff. 17r-54r
,
ff. 55v-79v
,
ff. 80r-102v
,
ff. 103v-108r
,
ff. 109r-159v
,
ff. 160r-173v
- due to different Ashkenazi cursive scripts.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather.

Spine: 'Services for Festivals. German. Brit. Mus. Additional 18,695.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Ḥanlein: inscribed in the colophon, 1504: folio 173v.

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 24 May 1851: inscribed, folio [174v].

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. 683.

Funding of Cataloguing

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