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The 'Dragon's Head Maḥzor'
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163 folios
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1399
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Names:
Avraham
Joseph Schönblum
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Or 42

The 'Dragon's Head Maḥzor'

Contents

Summary of Contents: Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, and beginning of Sukot, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Dragon's Head Maḥzor').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-163v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

See further [Davidson_1924] and Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles', New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art 12 (1996), http://cja.huji.ac.il/NL12-HIMBI.htm (accessed on 26 September 2014).

Text framed by and arch inhabited by hybrids in ink. f. 58r

11 inhabited initial words in ink and sometimes with red. f. 1r, 10v, 17v, 26v, 30r, 44v, 46r, 58r, 58v, 110r, 140v

Image of a hybrid next to an initial word in ink. f. 27v

3 drawings in ink next to the catchwords. f. 51v, 59v, 163v

Drawings of small dragon heads in ink decorating the first letters of lines on 12 folios. f. 47r, 53r, 61r, 62r, 63r, 64r, 78r, 78v, 79r, 79v, 126r, 144v

ff. 1r-26r
Title: Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit begins on folio 1r, musaf starts on folio 10r.

ff. 26r-44v
Title: Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah

Shaḥarit begins on folio 26r, musaf begins on folio 37r.

ff. 44v-163v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

Ma῾ariv begins on folio 44v, shaḥarit on folio 58r, musaf on folio 110r, and minḥah on folio 143r, ne῾ilah on folio 158r.

Folio 163v contains the beginning of shaḥarit for Sukot.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the last quarter of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 163 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 435 × 310 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270/265 × 200/190 mm.
Foliation:

163 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

20 quires: i8 (folios 1-8), ii8-1 (folios 9-15), iii8 (folios 16-23), iv8 (folios 24-31), v10 (folios 32-41), vi10 (folios 42-51), vii-xii8 (folios 52-99), xiii10 (folios 100-109), xiv8 (folios 110-117), xv8 (folios 118-125), xvi10 (folios 126-135), xvii8-1 (folios 136-142), xviii8 (folios 143-150), xix5 (folios 151-155), xx8 (folios 156-163).

Condition

First few leaves damaged.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Lower margin has been cut off numerous times (folios 56, 57, 84, 86, 87, 105, 119, 125, 126, 127, 131, 149, 152).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Several marginal notes in a semi-cursive script.

Erasures (e.g., folios 81v, 85r) or passages drawn across (e.g., folios 18r, 24v, 25r, 35v, 87v, 102r, 108v, 109v, 121r, 121v, 128v, 158r), entire poem drawn across (folios 96v-97r, 98r-99r, 99r-99v, 153v).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated. Avraham?: the name Avraham is marked on folio 110r.

Additions:

The word ‘Moie’ is written in Latin characters in the upper margin of folio 68v, and ‘Mojs’ in the upper margin of folio 107v.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Machzor. German Use. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 42.'

History

Origin: 1375-1399 Last quarter of the 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum on 25 May 1867 (folio [165v]).

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. 668.
    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

    [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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