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Or 2772

Record Id:
032-003375762
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Or 2772
Title:
Maḥzor
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
310 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1326
End Date:
1326
Date Range:
1326
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CE
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Names:
L. Cohen
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2772

Maḥzor

Contents

A festival prayer book, according to the Franco-German rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-310v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] .

f. 1r a caligraphic initial word, in pen and ink.

ff. 1r-17r
Title: Prayers for shaḥarit and musaf of Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 17r-27v
Title: Prayers for Yom Kipur

No Kol nidre is mentioned.

ff. 27v-47r
Title: Hosh῾anot

There are marginal cursive notes regarding the order of prayers for ḥol ha-mo῾ed.

ff. 47r-65r
Title: The service for Simḥat Torah

Contains only the service for shaḥarit.

ff. 65r-92v
Title: Hagadah for Passover
ff. 92v-122v
Title: Pirḳe avot
ff. 122v-296v
Title: A series of poetical pieces

Folios 295v-296v contain an index of the 96 pieces of this section.

ff. 297r-310v
Title: Calendar (fragments)

The first year treated is [50]86. The section contains a fragmentary set of lections for Shabat and festivals, and minhagim for the whole year.

From the references in this part it seems that the manuscript was in use in the community of Worms.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 310 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

310 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 vellum and 2 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

The first number of the original foliation is 128 (first 127 leaves have been lost).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords and signatures at the end of the quires.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Leaves missing after folio 304 and 307.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger decorative characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

A few marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. A.D. 1328. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2772.'

History

Origin: 1326 Germany (Worms)

Provenance and Acquisition

1884-05-06

L. Cohen: purchased by the British Museum from him on 06 May 1884 (folio [312v])

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_2772 (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. 658.

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

BL