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Add MS 19666

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Add MS 19666
Title:
Maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
281 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:
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Avraham Asher ibn Yitsḥaḳ London
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19666

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-281v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 3r-28v
Title: Services for the week-days
ff. 28v-36v
Title: Services for Shabat
ff. 36v-40r
Title: Services for Rosh ḥodesh
ff. 40r-44v
Title: Services for Ḥanukah
Filiation: Cf the contents of 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. 44v-51v
Title: Ta῾anit
Filiation: Cf the contents Add MS 19944, part VI, 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. 51v-63r
Title: Arba῾ah parashiyot
ff. 63r-99r
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Masekhet avot begins on folio 87v.

ff. 99r-115v
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot
ff. 115v-119v
Title: Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz
ff. 119v-137v
Title: Tish῾ah be-av
ff. 137v-152v
Title: ῾Aseret yeme teshuvah
ff. 152v-166v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 166v-169v
Title: Tsom Gedalyah
ff. 169v-252r
Title: Services for Tsom Kipur
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19945, 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..
ff. 252r-272v
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 19945, part VII, 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..
ff. 272v-281v
Title: A series of small offices

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 281 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 122 × 85 mm.
Dimensions (written): 85 × 50 mm.
Foliation:

281 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end). Folio 1 and 2 are paper flyleaves.

Collation

28 quires of originally10 leaves each (folios 3-281), marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Much stained.

One leaf lost after folio 29.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Folios 250 and 251 are a later restoration.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather. Boxed.

Spine: 'Machazor. Secund Ritum. Romanum. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,666.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Avraham Asher ibn Yitsḥaḳ London: inscribed in a note, Sivan [5]605 [1845]: folio 3r.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1585-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 278v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 287v); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Several birth entries, inscribed on the flyleaves: Colomba daughter of Shemu᾿el and Juditta Ravenna, 17 Iyar 1680 (folio 2r); Bila Viola, daughter of the same parents, 9 Siṿan 1682 (folio 2r); Shemu᾿el Barukh, son of Rivkah, daughter of Eli῾ezer of Cologna, 29 Marheshvan 1644 (folio 279r); Yosef David, son of the same parents, 22 Kisleṿ 1646; Mordekhai , son of the same parents, 12 Adar 1657 (folio 279r); Riḳah, daughter of Immanuel Pinto and Juditta, 15 Elul 1672 (folio 279r); a son of the same parents, 9 Siṿan 1674 (folio 279v); Avraham, 2 Tamuz 1676 (folio 280r); Barukh Mordekhai, son of Yosef Ravenna and Tamar, 13 Iyar 1683 (folio 281r); Cremesina, daughter of the same parents, 23 Sivan 1685 (folio 281r); Shemu᾿el, son of the same parents, 11 Kisleṿ 1688 (folio 281r); Diamanta, daughter of the same parents, 2 Siṿan [....] (folio 281v).

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): inscribed, [282v].

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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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. 632.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

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