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Or 2733

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032-003375157
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Or 2733
Title:
Maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
90 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2733 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Chaim M. Horowitz
Emanuel de Miliyat
Mosheh Yehudah
Ḥayim
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2733

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book for Rosh ha-Shanah, Franco-German rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-90v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

f. 2v 1 decorated initial word in ink.

2 pen drawings embedded into the text. f. 6r, 6v

4 marginal drawings. f. 4r, 49r, 57r, 59r

7 decorated catchwords. f. 10v, 26v, 34v, 44v, 54v, 76v, 84v

Carmina figurata. f. 6r, 6v, 7r, 44v, 50r, 50v, 51r, 51v

The manuscript has a number of marginal notes and additions in Italian and other types of handwriting of various dates.

The volume appears to have been used in an Ashkenazi community in Italy.

ff. 1v-45r
Title: Services for the first day
ff. 45r-88v
Title: Services for the second day
ff. 89r-90v
Title: Services of seliḥot (fragment)

The fragment originally belonged to a different manuscript, though of the same date as the rest.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 90 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170/185 × 125/145 mm.
Foliation:

90 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and an older and 2 modern unfoliated flyleaves at the end.

Quire numbering in upper right corner; quires viii and ix are equally numbered as 8.

Parallel Hebrew foliation, which shows that the middle bifolio of quire viii is missing (folios 66-67).

Collation

11 quires: i10 (folios 1-10), ii8 (folios 11-18), iii8-1 (folios 19-26), iv8 (folios 27-34), v10 (folios 35-44), vi12-2 (folios 45-54), vii8 (folios 55-62), viii8-2 (folios 63-68), ix8 (folios 69-76), x8 (folios 77-84 ), xi6 (folios 85-90).

Catchwords at the end of the quires, often decorated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Numerous marginal notes by various hands.

Deleted paragraphs (erasure of censor?) e.g., folios 36r, 78v.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, with a number of notes in Italian and other semi-cursive and cursive scripts. Ḥayim: the word ḥayim is decorated (e.g. folios 2v, 3v, 8r, 19v, 44r, 49r, 51v, 87v).

Additions:

Folio 1r contain an imperfect list of poetical pieces, but not all the piyuṭim enumerated are contained in the present volume.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2733.'

Accompanying Material

The last two folios (folios 89-90) are from another manuscript.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century France

Provenance and Acquisition

Mosheh Yehudah: inscribed with his name in Hebrew, next to it illegible signature in Latin letters with the same ink (lower margin, folio 81v).

Emanuel de Miliyat?: inscribed with his name (folio 85v).

1884-01-26

Chaim M. Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (folio [92v])

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2733 (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. 665.
    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].

Funding of Cataloguing

BL