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Or 2734

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032-003375158
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Or 2734
Title:
Maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
165 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2734 (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
Tsemaḥ Menaḥem Yaḳini ben Yosef Yaḳini
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Or 2734

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, according to the Franco-German rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-165v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

The volume contains a numer of notes in Italian cursive script in the margin. Apparently, it is an Ashkenazi rite used by Ashkenazi congregations in Italy.

ff. 1v-26v
Title: Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah
Filiation: Cf. the contents of Or 2733, 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.
ff. 26v-49v
Title: Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah
Filiation: Cf the contents of [BL] Or 2733, 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.
ff. 49v-165v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Shaḥarit begins on folio 68v, musaf on folio 101r, minḥah on folio 136v, and ne῾ilah on folio 152v.

A list of poetical pieces of Yom Kipur is given on folios 48v-49r.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 165 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

165 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in Italian script up to folio 49r, and another from folio 49v to the end was added later.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires, cut away for the most part.

Condition

2 leaves missing after folio 83 and another 2 after folio 87.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 22

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.

The front margins have in some cases been cut away.

Deleted paragraphs (erasure of censor?) e.g., folios 42v, 110r, 152r, 122r, 132r.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, with a number of notes in Italian scripts.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Mahzor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2734.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Tsemaḥ Menaḥem Yaḳini ben Yosef Yaḳini: inscribed in an entry on folio 1r.

Johan de Puig: inscribed in a Spanish entry, folio 48r.

1884-01-26

Chaim M. Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (folio [167v])

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_2734 (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. 666.
    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].

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark

Funding of Cataloguing

BL