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Maḥzor
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404 folios
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1349
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Giuseppe Almanzi
Yitsḥaḳ
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Maḥzor

Contents

Summary of Contents: Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for the Special Shabatot, Pesaḥ, Shavu῾ot with the Book of Ruth, and Ninth of Av with the Book of Lamentations, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Tinted Maḥzor').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-404v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] ; Zofia Ameisenowa, 'Animal-Headed Gods, Evangelists, Saints and Righteous Men', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 12 (1949), 21-45 (p. 28); [Metzger_1982] 304 and Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles', New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art 12 (1996), http://cja.huji.ac.il/NL12-HIMBI.htm (accessed on 26 September 2014).

8 medallions of zodiac signs, in colours, some unfinished.

ff. 153r-155v

Numerous marginal drawings in ink, red and green.>

6 inhabited initial words/initial-word panels in colours. f. 32v, 78v, 130v, 329r, 351v, 368r

9 initial words accompanied by animals and hybrids in colours. f. 125r, 239r, 255v, 259v, 287v, 308v, 332r, 337v, 361v

14 decorated initial-word panels and large initial words in ink and red, some unfinished. f. 11r, 29v, 51v, 68v, 95r, 113v, 166v, 189v, 199v, 216v, 250r, 279r, 341r, 363v

Numerous smaller decorated initial words in ink, red, green.

Hybrid in medallion between initial words. f. 304v

Zoomorphic letter. f. 335v

Numerous passages decorated with leaves at the first lines.

ff. 1v-11r
Title: The first part of shaḥarit for the sabath and festivals

The text on folios 1-7 was intended to be supplied with a commentary, about half the page having been left blank.

ff. 11r-125r
Title: Services for Shabat, Ḥanukah, and the special pericopes
ff. 125r-22v
Title: Services for Pesaḥ

Ma῾ariv for the first night, folio 125r; shaḥarit for the first day, folio 129v; musaf for the first day, folio 148r; ma῾ariv for the second day, folio 160r; shaḥarit for the second day, folio 165v; yotser for the sabath of ḥol ha-mo῾ed, folio 188v; ma῾ariv for the thrid night of Pesaḥ, folio 211r; shaḥarit for the seventh day, folio 215v; ma῾ariv for the last night of Pesaḥ, folio 245v; yotser for the last day of Pesaḥ, folio 248v.

ff. 275r-368r
Title: Services for Shavu῾ot

Ma῾ariv, folio 275r; yotser for Shavu῾ot, folio 277v; musaf, folio 311r; ma῾ariv for the second night of Shavu῾ot, folio 323v; yoser for the second day of Shavu῾ot, folio 327v.

The book of Ruth begins on folio 351v.

The pieces for musaf begin on folio 363v.

ff. 368r-404v
Title: Services for the ninth of Av

The book of Lamentations begin on folio 368r.

The series of ḳinot begin on folio 382r.

ff. 36v-43v
Title: Yotser for the pericope of the month

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the first half of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 404 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225/195 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

404 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

52 quires: i8-1 (folios 1-7), ii8 (folios 8-15), iii8 (folios 16-23), iv8 (folios 24-31), v8 (folios 32-39), vi8 (folios 40-47), vii8 (folios 48-55), viii8 (folios 56-63), ix8 (folios 64-71), x8 (folios 72-79), xi8 (folios 80-87), xii8 (folios 88-[95a]), xiii8 (folios 95-102), xiv8 (folios 103-110), xv8 (folios 111-118), xvi2 (folios 119-120), xvii4 (folios 121-124), xviii7 (folios 125-131), xix8 (folios 132-139), xx8 (folios 140-147), xxi8 (folios 148-155), xxii8 (folios 156-163), xxiii8 (164-171), xxiv8 (folios 172-179), xxv8 (folios 180-187), xxvi8 (folios 188-195), xxvii8 (folios 196-203), xxviii8 (folios 204-211), xxix8 (folios 212-219), xxx8 (folios 220-227), xxxi8 (folios 228-235), xxxii8 (folios 236-243), xxxiii8 (folios 244-251), xxxiv8 (folios 252-259), xxxv8 (folios 260-267), xxxvi8 (folios 268-275), xxxvii8 (folios 276-283), xxxviii8 (folios 284-291), xxxix8 (folios 292-299), xl8 (folios 300-307), xli8 (folios 308-315), xlii8 (folios 316-323), xliii8 (folios 324-331), xliv8 (folios 332-339), xlv8 (folios 340-347), xlvi8 (folios 348-355), xlvii8 (folios 356-363), xlviii8 (folios 364-370), xlix8 (folios 371-378), l8 (folios 379-386), li8 (folios 387-394), lii8+2 (folios 395-404).

Condition

A few leaves damaged.

Part of the lower margin has been cut off in numerous folios.

The golios after folio 94 and folio 368 are blank and unfoliated.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 16 26

Written lines: 15 25

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Numerous marginal notes and additions in different handwritings.

Watermark on folio [405 recto] of a monogram VCF. Instead of catchwords, the end and the beginning of the quires are numbered with Hebrew characters included into decorated panels starting with alef (numerical value 1) on folios 15v-16r.

Folio 7 is bound upside down.

Numerous words and passages have been crossed out by a censor (e.g., folios 17r, 38r, 42v, 49v, 57r, 61r, 70r, 86r, 107v, 147r, 173r, 174v, 215r, 263r, 377v, 397r; entire poems, e.g., folios 58v-59v, 291v, 382v-383v).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ: the name Yitsḥaḳ is marked many times, e.g. folios 10r, 17v, 36v, 51r, 77v, 284r, 307v.

Additions:

Folio 1 is a kind of title-page with the scribe's adnotation.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor According to the German Use. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,896.'

History

Origin: 1300-1349 1st half of the 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153: inscribed (folio [406v]).

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

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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. 656.

Bibliography

    [Davidson_1924] Israel Davidson. 'Otsar Ha-Shirah Ṿeha Piyuṭ : Mi-Zeman Ḥatimat Kitve Ha- Ḳodesh ʿad Reshit Teḳufat Ha-Haśkalaḥ.'New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Ameriḳah 1924-693 1933, 1924.
    [Metzger_1982] Thérèse Metzger. 'Jewish Life in the Middle Ages : Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries / Thérèse and Mendel Metzger.'New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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