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Add MS 19664
Title:
Maḥzor, (old) French rite
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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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Extent:
106 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1291
End Date:
1291
Date Range:
1291
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19664

Maḥzor, (old) French rite

Contents

A festival prayer book, according to the (old) French rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-106v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 1r-2r
Title: Portions for Rosh ḥodesh (fragment)
ff. 2r-3r
Title: The order of hafṭarot for the whole year
ff. 3r-4r
Title: Benedictions
ff. 4r-12r
Title: Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 12r-20r
Title: Birkat nisu᾿in

Followed by a number of additional pieces.

ff. 20r-40v
Title: Services for Sukot

Only the latter portions.

ff. 40r-42v
Title: Rules and special pieces for Ḥanukah and Ta῾aniyot

The order of the biblical lections for Ḥanukah is given on folio 41v.

ff. 42v-45r
Title: Special Sabbaths

At the end of the rules for the four special Sabbaths are given the regulations and special pieces for Purim.

ff. 45r-67r
Title: Parts of the Passover services

Seder begins on folio 50r.

ff. 67r-82r
Title: Evening services for Shavu῾ot

Contains the targumic pieces for the Ten Commandments.

ff. 82r-99v
Title: Calendar

Begins with the year [50]51, i.e. 1291.

ff. 100r-106v
Title: Additional pieces

Fragments of a calendar (14th century) and of a treatise on ritual slaughter (folios 102-106)

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 106 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 8 leaves each.

Signatures at the end of the quires, partially preserved (first extant on folio 27v).

Condition

Defective at the beginning.

Lacunae after folios 3, 11, 19.

Much damaged in the margins.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Some marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi (French) square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 13th century.

ff. 82r-106v
- due to a different hand than the rest of the manuscript.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather. Boxed.

Spine: 'Machazor. German Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Or. 19,664.'

Accompanying Material

Folios 100-106 are fragments of appended pieces (much damaged).

History

Origin: 1291 France or Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Adolphus Asher: (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased from him on 12 November 1853: inscribed (folio [107v]).

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_19664 (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. 664.

Funding of Cataloguing

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