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Title:
London Days of Awe 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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142 folios
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Start Date:
1250
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1349
Date Range:
1250-1349
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CE
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Add MS 16916

'London Days of Awe Maḥzor'

Contents

Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Maḥzor').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-142v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

f. 1r 1 initial-word panel inhabited by birds, dragons, and hybrids in ink.

2 initial words decorated with geometrical motifs/inhabited by hybrids and dragons in brown ink. f. 28v, 48v

8 marginal decorations in brown ink. f. 1r, 2r, 5r, 5v, 7r, 19v, 22r, 142r

3 erased marginal illustrations. f. 21v, 29v, 42r

5 decorated catchwords. f. 69v, 77v, 84v, 90v, 98v

ff. 1r-28v
Title: Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit (folio 1r) contains the same poetical pieces as in Or. 42.

Musaf starts on folio 11r (also the same as in Or. 42).

ff. 28v-48v
Title: Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit begins on folio 28v, musaf begins on folio 39v.

ff. 48v-142v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Kol nidre begins on folio 48v, shaḥarit on folio 61v (accompanying seliḥot begin on folio 89v), musaf on folio 104v, and minḥah on folio 133v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 2nd half of the 13th century or the 1st half of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 142 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

19 quires: i8-1 (folios 1-7), ii8 (folios 8-15), iii6 (folios 16-21), iv-x8 (folios 22-77), xi8-1 (folios 78-84), xii6 (folios 85-90), xiii8 (folios 91-98), xiv8-1 (folios 99-105), xv6-1 (folios 106-110), xvi-xix8 (folios 111-142).

There are catchwords at the end of the quires.

The first leaf the first quire is missing.

Condition

Leaves missing after folio 79, 87, 100, 108.

Defective at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Several marginal notes in a semi-cursive script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Ḥayim: the word ḥayim is decorated (e.g. folios 10r, 31r, 37v, 67r, 103v, 133r, 133v).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Mahazor for New Year & Day of Atonement. German Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 16,916.'

History

Origin: 1250-1349 2nd half of the 13th - 1st half of the 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

1847-04-24

Purchased at a sale at Pattich's (?) 24 Apr. 1847, lot. 465 (folio [143v]).

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_16916 (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. 670.
    Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-shirah veha piyut: mi-zeman hatimat kitve ha- kodesh ad reshit tekufat ha-haskalah[Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry] (New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Amerikah, 1924-1933) [on the text].
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles' New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art, 12 (1996), http://cja.huji.ac.il/Publications/NL12/NL12-HIMBI.html (accessed on 16 November 2016).

Funding of Cataloguing

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