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Add MS 16577

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Add MS 16577
Title:
Mahzor according to the Italian rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
287 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1450
End Date:
1474
Date Range:
1450-1474
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Antonio Franc. Enriques
Avraham ben Ya῾aḳov
Camillo Jaghel
Kalonymos Finziim
Laurentius Franguellus
Samuel ibn Tibbon
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 16577

Mahzor according to the Italian rite

Contents

A festival prayer book, according to the Italian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-287v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

f. 1r, 27v, 30v 3 frontispieces with initial-word panels and full borders, in colours and gold.

1 full-page miniature including the first owner’s inscription. f. 287r

Numerous initial-word panels and initial words accompanied with foliate scrolls or floral motifs and sometimes with animals or birds, in colours and gold.

2 pen drawings in the margin. f. 53r, 101v

See further [Tahan_2007] 83-85.

ff. 1r-13v
Title: Services for week-days
ff. 13v-29v
Title: ῾Inyan Shabat
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 19944.
ff. 29v-35r
Title: ῾Inyan Rosh ḥodesh
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 19944.
ff. 35r-37v
Title: Seder ῾Asarah be-ṭevet
Filiation: Cf. Add MS 19944, 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..
ff. 37v-48r
Title: Seder arba῾ah parashiyot
ff. 48r-84r
Title: Seder ῾Inyan Pesaḥ
Filiation: Cf. Add MS 19944, 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..

The Hagadah begins on folio 51r.

ff. 84r-108r
Title: Pirḳe avot

Contains Samuel ibn Tibbon’s introduction and his Hebrew translation of Maimonides’ commentary on Pirḳe avot.

ff. 108r-126r
Title: Seder Shavu῾ot
ff. 126r-149v
Title: ῾Inyan arba῾ah tsomot
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19944, 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..
ff. 149v-166r
Title: ῾Inyan ta῾anit
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19945, 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. 627..
ff. 166r-177r
Title: Seder ma῾amadot
ff. 177r-188v
Title: ῾Inyan Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 188v-260v
Title: Seder Yom Kipur
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19945, 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. 627..
ff. 260v-287v
Title: ῾Inyan ḥag ha-Sukot

Cf the contents of Add. 19945, 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. 627..

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 287 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 325 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

287 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

29 quires: i-xxviii10 (folios 1-280), xxixten (folios 281-286, 286a, 287).

Catchwords.

Quire numeration on the recto of the first folios in Arabic numbers.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Parallel Hebrew foliation.

Gilt edges.

Censors’ erasures (e.g., folio 2r, 8v, 154r, 155v, 178v, 183r).

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century, partially punctuated. 

Additions:

Marginal inscription: an attempt to copy Franguellus' signature (folio 103v).

Binding

Pre-1600. Red velvet, with clasps. Rebound in-house in brown leather (both bindings preserved).

Spine: 'Machazor Liber Precum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 16,577. Plut.'

History

Origin: 1450-1474 3rd quarter of the 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham ben Ya῾aḳov: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription (folio 287v).

Kalonymos Finziim (Panziim?; of the Finzi/ Panzi family?: inscribed with his name in an owner’s inscription, undated (folio 1r).

Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1611 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.

Antonio Franc. Enriques (fl. in Urbino): inscribed with his name, 1688 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 44.

Acquired by the British Museum in 1847.

1847

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. 630.
    [BL_2007] 44

Bibliography

    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.
    [BL_2007] Sacred (Exhibition) (2007 : British Library). 'Sacred : Books of the Three Faiths : Judaism, Christianity, Islam / Edited by John Reeve ; Essays by Karen Armstrong, Everett Fox, F.E. Peters ; Catalogue Contributions by Colin F. Baker ... [et Al.].'London: British Library, 2007.

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