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Add MS 27070

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032-003369767
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Add MS 27070
Title:
Maḥzor, vol. 1
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
299 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Dominico Irosolomitano
Eliyah Camerini
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27070

Maḥzor, vol. 1

Contents

Part 1 of a festival prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-299v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 2r-22r
Title: Services for the week-days
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 19944, part II, 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. 22r-41r
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 41r-44r
Title: Services for Rosh ḥodesh
Filiation: Cf poetical pieces in [BL] Add MS 19944, part IV.
ff. 44r-48v
Title: Services for Ḥanukah
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 19944, part V, 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. 48v-81v
Title: Arba῾ah tsomot
Filiation: Cf the contents [BL] Add MS 19945, part III, 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., Add MS 16577, part X, 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..

The margins are filled with additions in a contemporary semi-cursive script, containing scriptural passages etc.

ff. 81r-93v
Title: Purim ṿe-Seder arba῾ah parashiyot
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 19944, part VIII, 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. 93v-147r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 19944, part IX, 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. 147r-178v
Title: Masekhet avot

Preceded by Shemu᾿el ibn Tibbon's Introduction and Hebrew translation of Maimonides' Shemonah peraḳim, accompanied by Maimondes' commentary (in ibn Tibon's translation). There is no commentary on Pereḳ R. Meir.

ff. 178v-209r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 19944, XI, 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. 209r-237v
Title: Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz ṿe-tish῾ah be-av
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 19944, XII and XIII, 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. 237v-296v
Title: The Five Scrolls

Each book is accompanied by Abraham Ibn Ezra's commentary.

Ruth begins on folio 237v, the Song of Songs begins on folio 241v, Ecclesiastes on folio 251v, Esther on folio 277r, Lamentations on folio 287v.

After the Lamentations are Psalms 137 and 79.

Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Add MS 27298, III, 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. 239. and Add MS 24896, XVII-XXI, 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. 237..
ff. 297v-299r
Title: Additional pieces

Added in approximately the 16th century, in semi-cursive script.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 299 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200/285 × 132/185 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Much stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Additional pieces are written in the margins.

Hand(s)

Italian square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Partially punctuated.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. Roman Use. Part I. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional. 27,070.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyah Camerini: inscribed, folio 2r.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1585-1624): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 299r); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 298v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 175: 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): inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27070 (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. 634.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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