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Or 2735

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Or 2735
Title:
Maḥzor
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
185 folios
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Chaim M. Horowitz
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2735

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book, according to the (old) French rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-185v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] .

ff. 1r-17r
Title: Portions of Passover services

Includes a fragment of the Hagadah, containing a part of the Halel, accompanied by a commentary showing some similarities to the one by Eleazar of Worms, Add MS 27556, 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. 653.. The portion of Be-shalaḥ is included, accompanied by targumic interpretation.

ff. 17r-50v
Title: Portions for Shavu῾ot

Contains the text and targumic paraphrase of Be-ḥodesh shelishi, followed by a series of targumic pieces on the Ten Commandments.

ff. 50v-79r
Title: Pirḳe avot

The commentary varies considerably from the Maḥzor Viṭry. The remark in pencil inside the cover attributing the commentary to Efraim of Regensburg is most probably erroneous.

ff. 79r-91r
Title: A series of ma῾arivim shel Pesaḥ
ff. 91r-95r
Title: A series of ma῾arivim shel Shavu῾ot
ff. 95r-97v
Title: A series of ma῾arivim shel Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 97v-110r
Title: Ma῾arivim shel Sukot
ff. 110r-138r
Title: The prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur

Partly accompanied by commentary. An additional poetical piece is given in the margin, in an Italian cursive hand of the 16th century.

ff. 138r-157r
Title: Hosh῾anot

With commentary. Cf Add MS 27556, part V; Add MS 22413, part IIe; and Add MS 27208, part VIII (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. 653, 662, 654. respectively).

ff. 157r-165r
Title: Services for Simḥat Torah

Includes additions written in an Italian cursive hand of the 16th century.

ff. 165r-170r
Title: Yotsrot

With commentary.

ff. 170r-185v
Title: Portions of Ketubot ṿe-Ḳidushin

Followed by Birkat irusin and a number of poetical pieces, with partial commentary.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th to 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 185 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130/210 × 75/120 mm.
Foliation:

185 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

On guards.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

The number of lines in the margin varies considerably.

The text of folios 170r-185v is written in two columns, and the commentary occupies the upper, lower and outer margin. Some of the margins are cut away.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger decorative characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Numerous marginal notes and additions.

Censor's erasures, e.g., folios 111r, 126v.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive scripts, punctuated, of the 13th to 14th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Mahazor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS 2735.'

History

Origin: 1200-1399 13th-14th century France

Provenance and Acquisition

1884-01-26

Chaim M. Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (folio [186v])

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. 663.

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.

Funding of Cataloguing

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