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Title:
Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite
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172 folios
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1349
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1349
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1349
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Names:
Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov
Thomas Rodd the younger
Yo᾿el bar Shim῾on ha-Leṿi
Yudah Leib ben Yeshayahu Preger
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Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

Summary of Contents: Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for the Special Shabatot, Pesaḥ and Shavu῾ot, according to the Ashkenazi rite, with the Books of Ruth and Song of Songs.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-172v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] .

17 initial-words decorated with foliate motifs or penwork decoration in black ink and sometimes red. f. 1v, 4v, 6r, 15r, 42r, 47r, 47v, 51r, 59r, 65r, 78v, 92v, 109r, 112v, 137r, 163v, 168r

2 textual illustrations in the margin f. 28v, 159v

Colophon: נחמיה בר' יעקב הסופר. כתבתי זה ספר לר' יואל בר' שמעון הלוי. סיימתי זה ספר ט' בשבט ק"ט לפרט לאלף הששי לבריא' עול' / חזק ונתחזק הסופר לא יוזק / עד שיעלה בסולם החמור. f. 172v
Incipit: אני אכתב זאת בכמה קולמוסים / בלא מעשה נסים / בעיר ירושלים הבירה / נעשה על ידי / הקטן נחמיה ב"ר יעקב סופר סתם / בשנת ק"ט לפרט / לאלף הששי לבריאת עולם / וכתיבת יד מיוצרות / ושארי שבתות שאומרים יוצרות / וזולתת וכו' / גם מחזור פסח ושבועות / ומארבע פרשיות. f. 1r
ff. 1v-6r
Title: Yotser for Shabat and Ḥanukah
ff. 6r-14r
Title: For the pericope 'Sheḳalim'
ff. 14r-22v
Title: Yotser for Shabat of the pericope 'Zekhor'
ff. 22v-28v
Title: Poetical pieces for Purim
ff. 28v-36v
Title: For the pericope 'Parah'
ff. 36v-43v
Title: Yotser for the pericope of the month
ff. 43v-50v
Title: Yotser for the great Shabat
ff. 50v-65r
Title: Yotser for the first day of Pesaḥ
ff. 65r-73v
Title: Yotser for the second day of Pesaḥ
ff. 73v-78v
Title:
Title: Yotser for Shabat of ḥol ha-mo῾ed of Pesaḥ
ff. 78v-92v
Title: Yotser for the seventh day of Pesaḥ
ff. 92v-108v
Title: Yotser for the last day of Pesaḥ
ff. 108v-137r
Title: Yotser for Shavu῾ot
ff. 137r-162v
Title: Yotser for the second day of Shavu῾ot
ff. 163v-167v
Title: The book of Ruth
ff. 168r-172v
Title: The Song of Songs

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the mid-14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 172 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210/230 × 145/155 mm.
Foliation:

172 folios (no flyleaf).

Collation

22 quires: i8 (folios 1-8), ii8 (folios 9-16), iii8 (folios 17-24), iv8 (folios 25-32), v8 (folios 33-40), vi10 (folios 41-50), vii8 (folios 51-58), viii8 (folios 59-66), ix8 (folios 67-74), x8 (folios 75-82), xi8 (folios 83-90), xii8 (folios 91-98), xiii8 (folios 99-106), xiv8 (folios 107-114), xv8 (folios 115-122), xvi8 (folios 123-130), xvii6 (folios 131-136), xviii8 (folios 137-144), xix8 (folios 145-152), xx8 (folios 153-160), xxi8 (folios 161-168), xxii4 (folios 169-172). Marked with catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16 22

Written lines: 15 21

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Edges coloured in red.

Jerusalem as the place of production is mentioned only in the later complement pasted onto folio 1, but not in the original colophon on folio 172v.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated. Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov: his colophon: 'I, Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov the scribe, wrote this book for Rabbi Yo᾿el bar Shim῾on ha-Leṿi. I finished this book on 8 Shvat 109 of the fifth millenium of the creation of the world. Grow stronger and let us grow stronger. May no harm befall the copyist until the donkey ascends the ladder to the heavens' (1349) (folio 172v); inscription naming the scribe Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov and Jerusalem, 1349, as the place of production and date on an early modern additional parchment leaf pasted onto folio 1, perhaps a copy of an original inscription now missing.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Binding in velvet and silk.

Spine: 'Preges Paschales et Pentecostales. Hebraice. Codex A. C. 1349. Exaratus. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 10,456. Plut CCXXVIIIE.'

History

Origin: 1349 Germany or Eastern Mediterranean

Provenance and Acquisition

Cologne: reference to the town in captions, 'This is the seder of Ḳolonya' (folio 92v), and 'This is the end of the seder of Ḳolonya' (folio 140r).

Mainz: reference to the town in a caption, 'Here I start the seder of Mentsa', folio 140r.

Worms: reference to the town in later marginal notes (folios 44v, 92v, 137r).

Yudah Leib ben Yeshayahu Preger: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, dated 1719 (folio 172v).

1836-05

Thomas Rodd, the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum in May 1836.

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

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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. 659.

Bibliography

    [Davidson_1924] Israel Davidson. 'Otsar Ha-Shirah Ṿeha Piyuṭ : Mi-Zeman Ḥatimat Kitve Ha- Ḳodesh ʿad Reshit Teḳufat Ha-Haśkalaḥ.'New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Ameriḳah 1924-693 1933, 1924.

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