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Add MS 19781

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032-003371858
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Add MS 19781
Title:
Maḥzor, North African rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
210 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
D. Nutt
M. Aschkenazi
Shabtai ben Molkho
Ye᾿udah ha-Kohen Yeḥonatan
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19781

Maḥzor, North African rite

Contents

A festival prayer book for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, according to a North African rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-210v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

Folios 2r-4v contain a form of hatarat gedarim relating to the past, and another relating to the future. Cf [Mahzor_Algiers_1861] .

ff. 1r-83v
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah

Services for the first day: seder tefilat minḥah, folio 1r; ma῾ariv, folio 10v; seder tefilat shaḥarit with introductory pieces, folio 17r; tefilat musaf, folio 65r.

Services for the second day: folios 71v-83v.

ff. 84r-210v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Seder tedilat minḥah, folio 84r; seder tefilat ῾arvit lel kipur, folio 85r; seder shaḥarit, folio 101r; tefilat musaf, folio 141r; seder tefilat minḥah, folio 173r (the book of Jonah begins on folio 174r); seder tefilat ne῾lah, folio 191r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th or 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 210 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

210 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Irregular original foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Severely water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 4

Ruled lines: 22 23

Written lines: 22 23

Uniform layout.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 16th or 17th century.

Additions:

Folios 1-4 are a later addition.

Binding

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

Spine: 'Ordo Precum In Novum Annum. Et In Die Expiationis. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,781.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Africa, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Ye᾿udah ha-Kohen Yeḥonatan, dated [5]482 (1722): inscribed in an owner's entry, as well as in an entry of sale to Shabtai ben Molkho, dated [5]494 (1734), folio 1v.

A pencil entry beginning 'Avraham Zanun', folio 1r.

1854-04-08

M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [211v].

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_19781 (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. 705.

Bibliography

    [Mahzor_Algiers_1861] 'Sefer Maḥazor Ḳaṭan : Le-Yamim Noraʾim ...'Liṿorno, 1861, ליוורנו, וארחתו, 1861.

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