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Title:
Tripartite Maḥzor
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
167 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1329
Date Range:
1300-1329
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CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Kara, Joseph ben Simon, 1065-1135
Kara, Joseph ben Simon, 1065-1135
Ya῾aḳov Daniyel bar Avraham Ulmo
Ḥayim
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Tripartite Maḥzor

Contents

Summary of Contents: Festival prayer book for Shavuʻot (Feast of Weeks) and Sukot (Feast of the Tabernacles), German rite, including biblical readings. The Book of Ruth and the Book of Ecclesiastes with Joseph Ḳara's commentary. Aka the 'Tripartite Maḥzor'.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-167v
Title: Maḥzor minhag Ashkenaz le-Shavuʻot ule-Sukot
Title: מחזור מנהג אשכנז לשבועות ולסוכות ‬

1. Services for Shavuʻot, folios 1r-83r. The book of Ruth with a commentary ascribed to Joseph Ḳara begins with folio 71r. (Beginning: ‘ויהי בימי שפוט' כו'’, end: ‘ואלה תולדות פרץ’, subscription: ‘חסלת מגילת רות, פרישת רבי' יוסף קרא: ז"ע’.)

2. Services for Sukot, folios 83v-167v. The book of Ecclesiastes with the commentary of Joseph Ḳara (up to chapter 9:2) and Barukh ben Shemu᾿el (from there to the end), begins on folio 106r.

12 medallions of the zodiac signs in colours.

ff. 138r-142v

f. 3r, 49r, 71r, 85r, 148r Historiated initial-word panels in colours and gold.

Inhabited initial-word panels in colours and gold. f. 98r, 106r, 131r

Commentary written in carmina figurata.

Filiation: The codex is the second volume of a three-volume prayer book; the first volume is kept in Budapest (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kaufmann Collection MS A384), and the third volume is kept in Oxford (MS Michael 619). Originally the prayer book constituted a two-volume codex. The manuscript is related stylistically to the 'Duke of Sussex Pentateuch' (British Library Add MS 15282, 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. 74.) and the Gradual of Saint Katharinental (Zürich, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Frauenfeld, LM 26117).
Author: Kara, Joseph יוסף קרא
ff. 1r-83v
Title: Services for Shavuʻot
ff. 83v-167v
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Similar in content to other manuscripts from the BL collection, see 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. 667. and 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. 671.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the beginning of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 167 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200/300 × 150/165 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

21 quires: i-viii8, ix12, x6, xi8-1, xii-xx8, xxi6.

No catchwords.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

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Uniform layout.

Visible ruling with hard-point.

Text written in either two or three columns, commentary presented in carmina figurata.

Large square initial words.

26 lines to a page of square writing; the semi-cursive commentary arranged variously, often in geometrical figures.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the early 14th century. Ḥayim, inscribed with his name on 80v and 167v; the word חיים is decorated.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house. Brown leather.

Spine: 'Machazor Cum Comment. R. Josephi Kara Super Megilloth. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 22,413.'

History

Origin: 1300-1329 Germany (area of Lake Constance)

Provenance and Acquisition

Coats of arms of Bavaria and Austria at a depiction of two knights fighting (volume 1, folio 103v). The scene may refer to a battle between King Frederick the Fair of Austria and his rival king, King Louis IV the Bavarian, at Mühldorf in 1322. This data is one of the criteria on which the manuscript was dated, see Narkiss, ‘A Tripartite Illuminated Mahzor' (1968), 130, and Shalev-Eyni, Jews Among Christians, 294.

Ya῾aḳov Daniyel bar Avraham Ulmo: inscribed with his name (folio 1r).

An obituary entry of 1572 (folio 167v).

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 by the British Museum from him on 12 June 1858: inscribed (f. 168v).

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. 662.
    Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-shirah veha piyut: mi-zeman hatimat kitve ha- kodesh ad reshit tekufat ha-haskalah [Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry] (New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Amerikah, 1924-1933) [on the text].
    Bezalel Narkiss, ‘A Tripartite Illuminated Mahzor from a South German School of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts around 1300’, in Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies Papers, [2 volumes] (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1968), II, pp. 129-33.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 108.
    Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), pp. 92-95.
    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
    Bezalel Narkiss, ‘On the Zoocephalic Phenomenon in Medieval Ashkenazi Manuscripts’, in Norms and Variations in Art. Essays in Honour of Moshe Barasch (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1983), pp. 49-62.
    Bezalel Narkiss, 'Pharaoh is Dead and living at the Gates of Hell', Journal of Jewish Art, 10 (1984), 6-13 (p. 10).
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987), pp. 147 and 150.
    Ruth Mellinkoff, Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999).
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, ‘Ha-Mahzor ha-Meshullash’, unpublished doctoral thesis, (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 2001).
    Zsofia Buda, ‘Zoocephalic Figures in the Tripartite Mahzor’, unpublished M.A. Thesis (Budapest: Central European University, 2005). Summary published in Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, 12 (2006), 33-47.
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'In the Days of the Barley Harvest: The Iconography of Ruth', Artibus et Historiae, 26 (2005), 37-57.
    Zsofia Buda, ‘Animals and the Gaze at Women. Zoocephalic Figures in the Tripartite Mahzor’, in Animal Diversities, ed. by Gerhard Jaritz and Alice Choyke (Krems: Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 2005), pp. 136-66.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 88.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 146 [exhibition catalogue].
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Jews among Christians: Hebrew book illumination from Lake Constance (London: H. Miller, 2010).

Funding of Cataloguing

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