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Add MS 27126

Record Id:
032-003368371
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Add MS 27126
Title:
Maḥzor according to the Sefardi rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
299 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1449
Date Range:
1350-1449
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham, 1235-1310
Giuseppe Almanzi
Solomon ibn Gabirol
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27126

Maḥzor according to the Sefardi rite

Contents

Festival prayer book according to the Sefardi rite, with Keter Malkhut and a series of dinim in the margin.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-299v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

12 numerous initial-word panels and initial words decorated with penwork and pen-flourishing, in brown, red, and blue ink. f. 1r, 3r, 43r, 77r, 92r, 133r, 135r, 165v, 192v, 198r, 236v, 241v

1 pen-flourishing at the end of a text column. f. 132r

1 decorated catchword, in brown ink. f. 267v

Keter malkhut of Solomon ibn Gabirol begins in the margin of folio 1r (hardly readable due to faded ink).

Seder sheva῾ ta῾aniyot ha-aḥaronot begins in the margin of folio 29r.

Ḳetsat medine torat ha-bayit (excerpts from the work of Solomon ibn Adret) begins in the margin of folio 50r.

Kelale yen nesakh begin in the margin of folio 142v.

Hilkhot sheḥitah, followed by Kisuy ha-dam, are written in the margins of folios 146r-157v.

ff. 1v-92r
Title: Services for week-days

Probably defective at the beginning.

ff. 92r-107r
Title: Seder Shabat

Seder hafṭarot begins on folio 104r.

ff. 107r-114v
Title: [Hagadah shal Pesaḥ]

The first portion is missing at the beginning. There is also a lacuna after folio 112.

ff. 114v-283r
Title: Services for festivals

The prayers for shalosh regalim begin on folio 114v (defective at the end of musaf);.

Folios 121r-132v contain a fragment of Pirḳe avot. The sixth pereḳ begins on folio 123v.

Seder Ḥag ha-Shavu῾ot begins on folio 132v.

Services for the middle days of the festivals of Passover and Sukot begin on folios 156r.

Directions and special pieces for fast-days begin on folio 195v (Adon ῾olam was written at the end of this portion (folio 164v-165r) by a late hand.

Seder Rosh ha-Shanah begins on folio 165v.

Seder Yom Kipur begins on folio 198r.

Services for Sukot begin on folio 236v.

ff. 283r-299v
Title: Offices and benedictions

Ends with Birkat kohanim.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 2nd half of the 14th or 1st half of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 299 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 85 × 65 mm.
Dimensions (written): 50 × 30 mm.
Foliation:

299 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

39 quires: ifive (folios 1-5), ii8-1 (folios 6-12), iii-xiii8 (folios 13-100), xiv-xv6 (folios 101-112), xvi-xix8 (folios 113-144), xx4 (folios 145-148), xxi-xxiv8 (folios 149-180), xxv8-1 (folios 181-187), xxvi-xxxix8 (folios 188-299).

Hebrew quire numbering, partly cut away.

Condition

Lacunae after folio 92, 103, 106, 112, 120, 180, and 291.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 11

Written lines: 11

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Erased and rewritten paragraphs (e.g., folio 92v).

Erased texts, presumably by a censor (e.g., folios 181r, 181v).

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script, partially punctuated.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

History

Origin: 1350-1449 2nd half of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

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Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 233: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153.

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_27126 (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. 692.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

BL