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Add MS 17055

Record Id:
032-003368362
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Add MS 17055
Title:
Maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, Ashkenazi rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
188 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Names:
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17055

Maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, Ashkenazi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-188v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] .

There are marginal directions in Yiddish in different parts of the manuscript.

ff. 1r-32r
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 12r (also the same as in Or. 42).

The portions missing after folio 21 and 26 are written in the margin in cursive Ashkenazi script.

ff. 32r-57r
Title: Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit begins on folio 32r, musaf begins on folio 45v.

ff. 57r-188v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Kol nidre begins on folio 57r, shaḥarit on folio 75r, musaf on folio 134r, and minḥah on folio 174v, ne῾ilah on folio 181r.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 188 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 275 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

188 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated vellum flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires, some of them trimmed away.

Condition

Leaves missing after folio 21, 26, 126, 167.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and plummet ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters. Some of them highlighted with red ink (e.g. folio 105v, 167r).

Hair side and flesh side are hardly distinguishable.

Several marginal notes in a semi-cursive script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Mahazor for New Year and Day of Atonement. Ashkenazzi Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,055.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

A former owner's note, dated [5]216 AM (1456 CE): folio 1r.

1847-10-23

Thomas Rodd, the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 October 1847, Macdonalds' sale, lot 165: inscribed, folio [189v].

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_17055 (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. 673.

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.

Funding of Cataloguing

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