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Or 10752

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Or 10752
Title:
Maḥzor, rite of Rome
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
220 folios (ii+220+ii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1449
Date Range:
1400-1449
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10752

Maḥzor, rite of Rome

Contents

Festival prayer book according to the rite of Rome.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-220v
Author:
Title: מחזור מנהג רומה לכל השנה ‬
Title: Maḥzor minhag Romah le-khol ha-shanah

Liturgical texts are accompanied with numerous instructions.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 220 folios (ii+220+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 272 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

23 quires: i10, ii8, iii-xxii10, xxiii2.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Usage stains.

Numerous leaves have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

Erasures (e. g., ff. 4, 9v, 30, 112).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 15th century. Partially punctuated (punctuation probably has been added later).

Decoration

Decorated chapter numbers in Psalms and instructions in the margins, in red ink (ff. 33r-35r, 39v, 46r-49v, 68r-68v, 75v-76r, 129r-130r, 152v-153r).

Numerous initial-word panels with penwork decoration, pen-flourishing sometimes inhabited by birds and dragon heads, in colours (e.g. ff. 1r, 4r, 19r, 58v, 62v, 216v)

1 marginal illustration of a shofar, damaged, in red ink (f. 69v).

Decorated cathwords.

Some of the decoration had been trimmed off when rebound.

Added frame decorated with floral motifs for the opening of the codex but left empty, in ink (front flyleaf (iii)r).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house; half-bound.

Spine: 'Maḥazōr. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 10,752.'

History

Origin: 1400-1449 1st half of 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Orowetz (Horowitz?) of Jerusalem: purchased by Moses Gaster from him in 1891: inscribed with his name one front flyleaf (iii)r: קנין כספי מאת החכם יוסף אראוואץ מירושלים שנת ת'ר'נ'א' לפ"ק הצעיר משה גאסטער

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 5: inscribed with his name on f. 220v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 5 July 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

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