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Or 2088

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032-003375108
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Or 2088
Title:
Maḥzor according to the Italian rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
180 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
D.A. Berliner
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2088

Maḥzor according to the Italian rite

Contents

A festival prayer book, according to the Italian rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-180v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 1r-8v
Title: Seliḥot le-‘aseret yeme teshuvah
ff. 8v-27r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 27r-145r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 19945, VI, 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. 627..
ff. 145r-180v
Title: Services for Sukot
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 19945, part VII, 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. 627., Add MS 26968, 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. 616..

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 180 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

180 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Late Hebrew foliation between folios 9-180 (א-קסא), and four wrongly marked leaves after folio סו.

Collation

Between folios 5-124: quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked with catchwords and signatures at the end. After folio 125: irregular foldings and catchwords, no signatures.

Condition

Much stained.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Visible pencil and hard-point ruling.

Visible pricking.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Quire signatures occasionally enclosed within pen and ink design, e.g. folio 94v.

Hand(s)

Italian square script of the 15th century. Punctuated.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2088.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

D.A. Berliner: purchased from him by the British Museum on 31 October 1878: inscribed, [182v].

1878-10-31

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=Or_2088 (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. 637.

Funding of Cataloguing

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