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Or 1424

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Or 1424
Title:
Biblical readings and liturgical poems for Passover
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
30 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1374
Date Range:
1350-1374
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Fischl Hirsch
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1424

Biblical readings and liturgical poems for Passover

Contents

Fragment of a Maḥzor including biblical readings and liturgical poems for Passover.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-30v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

10 decorated initial-word panels with gold letters and foliate spreading to the margins sometimes inhabited by animals, birds, human figures, hybrids. f. 1v, 2r, 3v, 4v, 6v, 7v, 8r, 9v, 11r, 12v

3 decorated initial-word panels with gold letters and pen-flourishing. f. 16v, 19v, 22v

One partial foliate border inhabited by animals and a human figure. f. 1v

ff. 1v-16v
Title: Fragments of parashayot and hafṭarot for Pesaḥ

The order of reading follows the Sefardi rite.

ff. 16v-30v
Title: Piyuṭim for Pesaḥ

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 30 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250/255 × 185/190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 110/115 mm.
Foliation:

30 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 unfoliated parchment and 10 paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

7 quires: i4 (folios 1-4), ii8 (folios 5-12), iii3 (folios 13-15), iv8 (folios 16-23), v4 (folios 24-27), vi2 (folios 28-29), vii2 (30-[31]).

No catchwords.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

The decoration is closely related to the Kaufmann Haggadah, according to [Narkiss_1982] .

Hand(s)

Sefardi square and semi cursive script, partially punctuated.

Additions:

Inscription in pencil: '129 Mahzorfragment' (folio 1v).

Binding

Post-1600. Oriental style, tooled.

Spine: 'Haggadah. Pesach. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1424.'

History

Origin: 1350-1374 3rd quarter of the 14th century Spain, N. E. (Catalonia)

Provenance and Acquisition

1877-01-12

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1877.

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_1424 (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. 696.
    Alexander Scheiber, The Kaufmann Haggadah:? Facsimile Edition of MS 422 of the Kaufmann Collection in the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1957).
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 14; II, figs 246-49.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), p. 48.

Bibliography

    [Narkiss_1982] NarkissB. 'Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles 2 VOLS. (2 COPIES)'. Oxford Oxford UnivPress 1982, 1982.

Funding of Cataloguing

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