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Add MS 19780

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Add MS 19780
Title:
Maḥzor, rite of Algiers
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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:
189 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
M. Aschkenazi
Yosef Neḳaṿah
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19780

Maḥzor, rite of Algiers

Contents

A festival prayer book, according to the rite of Algiers.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-189v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 1r-17v
Title: Services for the week of the 4th of Marḥeshvan
ff. 17v-23v
Title: Seder parashat Sheḳalim
ff. 23v-33r
Title: Seder parashat Zekhor
ff. 33r-35v
Title: Tiḳun yom Purim
ff. 35v-40v
Title: Seder parashat Parah
ff. 40v-46r
Title: Seder parashat ha-ḥodesh
ff. 46r-49v
Title: Azharot

Services for the great sabbath.

ff. 49v-94r
Title: Seder ha-Pesaḥ

Services for the first evening of Pesaḥ, folio 49v; services for the first day of Pesaḥ, folio 56v; services for the second day, folio 71v; services for sabbath and the intermediate days of the festival, folio 76v; services for the seventh day of Pesaḥ, folio 80r; services for the last day of Pesaḥ, folio 84v.

Folio 90r contains the blessings for the biblical reading, and folios 90v-93v contain the readings for Pesaḥ.

ff. 94r-128r
Title: Seder ḥag Shavu῾ot

Services for the first day, folio 94r; services for the second day, folio 119v.

ff. 128r-188v
Title: Seder ḥag Sukot

Services for the first day, folio 128r; services for the second day, folio 142v; services for sabath and the intermediate days, folio 149v; the order of haḳafot for Hosh῾anah rabah, folio 156r; services for Shemini ῾atseret, folio 167r; services for Simḥat Torah, folio 177r.

Folios 185r-187v contain Hafṭarot for the festival of Sukot.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 189 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 160 mm.
Foliation:

189 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Foxed paper.

Layout

Columns:1 4

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed.

Spine: 'Machazor. Secundum Ritum Algerensum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,780.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Africa, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef Neḳaṿah (?): inscribed, folios 56r, 188r.

An anonymous entry, dated 8 Adar5680 (1708): inscribed, folio 188r.

1854-04-08

M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: 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_19780 (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. 702.

Funding of Cataloguing

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