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Title:
Maḥzor
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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276 folios
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Start Date:
1332
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1350
Date Range:
1332-1350
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CE
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Names:
Adolphus Asher
Dominico Irosolomitano
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204
Ḥananael ben Yitsḥaḳ
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Add MS 18690

Maḥzor

Contents

A daily prayer book with services according to both the Spanish and Italian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-264v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
Filiation: Cf. the contents of [BL] Or 5866 and [BL] Add MS 27126.

The upper and lower margins of folios 1-252 are occupied with the Psalms.

ff. 1r-84v
Title: Services for the week-days

Keter malkhut of Solomon ibn Gabirol, folios 1v-42r; the services proper, folios 42r-84v.

ff. 84v-120v
Title: Services for sabbath
ff. 120v-130r
Title: Additional portions

For Rosh ḥodesh, Ta῾anit, Ḥanukah, Purim, Tish῾ah be-av.

ff. 130r-160v
Title: Prayers for festivals

Followed by Birkat ḥolim.

ff. 160v-180v
Title: Hagadah for Passover

Folios 177r-179v contain various notes and comments on the Hagadah.

ff. 180v-198v
Title: Pirḳe avot
ff. 198v-211v
Title: Ma῾aseh ha-Torah
ff. 211v-226v
Title: Targum yerushalmi

On the pericope Ṿa-yehi be-shalaḥ, followed by the similar midrashic targum on Ex. 19 and 20.

ff. 226v-246v
Title: Benedictions

For various occasions.

ff. 246v-251r
Title: Hilkhot sheḥitah
ff. 251r-264v
Title: Calendar

Begins with[5]269 (1333).

ff. 264v-272r
Title: Moreh nevukhim
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Part 3, chapter 60 only.

ff. 272r-276v
Title: Sheloshah ῾asar ῾iḳarim
Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 משה בן מימון, 1138-1204

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the first half of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 276 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 50 mm.
Foliation:

276 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated vellum flyleaves both at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Folios 271-276 are a separate fragment.

Condition

Stained.

Defective at the end.

Leaves missing after folio 271.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout. Varying number of columns a page.

Visible ruling by hard point: bifolium by bifolium on hair-side, and leaf by leaf on hair-side.

Visible pricking in outer margins only, quire by quire, on recto.

Last written line within ruling. Graphic filler at the end of line.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, black leather. Boxed.

Spine: 'Machazor. Breviarum Precum Ritus Italici. Cum Psalmis. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 18,690.'

History

Origin: 1332-1350 Provence

Provenance and Acquisition

Ḥananael ben Yitsḥaḳ: inscribed, folio 264r.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (fl. 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 276v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1610' (folio 276v), see [Popper_1969] , appendix § 85-87.

1852-05-24

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 24 May 1852: inscribed, folio [277v].

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. 694.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL