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Add MS 18229

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032-003367049
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Add MS 18229
Title:
Maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
315 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18229 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 18229

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-315v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 1r-14r
Title: Services for the week-days
ff. 14r-26v
Title: 'Inyan Shabat

No piyuṭim or havdalot are given.

ff. 26v-30v
Title: 'Inyan Rosh ḥodesh
ff. 30v-35v
Title: 'Inyan Ḥanukah
ff. 35v-46v
Title: ῾Asarah be-ṭevet
ff. 46v-52r
Title: Arba῾ah parashiyot
ff. 52r-59v
Title: Tsom Ester ṿe-Purim
ff. 59v-104v
Title: Services for Shabat ha-gadol and Pesaḥ

Masekhet avot begins on folio 97r.

ff. 104v-131v
Title: 'Inyan Shavu῾ot
ff. 131v-138v
Title: Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz
ff. 138v-164r
Title: Tish῾ah be-av
ff. 164r-176r
Title: ῾Aseret yeme teshuvah
ff. 176r-194r
Title: 'Inyan Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 194r-287v
Title: Seder Yom Kipur
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19945.
ff. 287v-314r
Title: 'Inyan Sukot
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19945.
ff. 314v-315v
Title: Table of contents

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 315 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 253 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

315 folios (+ 2 unfoliated vellum and 1 modern paper flyleaves, both at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of originally 8 and 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

First three leaves much stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point and ink ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Italian square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Punctuated.

Binding

Post 1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Mahzor. Roman Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 18,229.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

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): inscribed, [316v].

1850-07-13

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18229 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 631.

Funding of Cataloguing

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