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Or 10641

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Or 10641
Title:
Maḥzor for the entire year, Western-Ashkenazi rite (Worms)
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Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
39 folios (i+39+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10641 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1650
End Date:
1651
Date Range:
1650-1651
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Isaac Alexander Honig
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Or 10641

Maḥzor for the entire year, Western-Ashkenazi rite (Worms)

Contents

Festival prayer book for the festivals and the Special Sabbaths.

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1v-39v
Title: מחזור מנהג אשכנז המערבי (וורמיזא) לכל השנה
Title: Maḥzor minhag Ashkenaz ha-Maʻaravi (Ṿormaiza) le-khol ha-shanah

Title page (f. 1v): מערבים ויוצרות אופנים וזולות כמנהג וויריישה המהולל אלהים ... עד עולם סלה - שנת ת'י'א' דיצירה לפק

With instructions in Yiddish.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 35, 36).
Extent: 39 folios (i+39+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 166 mm.
Dimensions (written): 146 × 114 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword in almost every page.

Condition

Usage stains, tears, damaged leaves.

Smudged ink, liquid damage, dirt.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Section headings in larger, square characters.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive and cursive script of the 17th century, in black and red ink; vocalised.

Decoration

Illustrated title page (f. 1v); iconography is following the tradition of the Amsterdam Haggadah with Aaron and Moses onthe two sides.

Illustrations: e.g. matsah (f. 2v), Aḳedat Yitsḥaḳ (ff. 9v, 17v), Matan Torah (f. 10v); head of household handling over the first fruits to the kohen (f. 12v), R. Tsadoḳ (f. 20v), blowing the shofar (f. 22v), Shabat shuvah (f. 25v), sukah (f. 30v), lulav (f. 32r), lighting the menorah (f. 39r). Most of them with captions.

Ink drawings of crowns (ff. 22r, 24v, 25r).

Coloured initial words in red and green ink (e.g. f. 34r)

Additions:

Illegible inscription on back flyleaf (i)r in Latin characters.

F. 1 and back flyleaf (iii) is a palimpsest, remains of a Hebrew text written in two columns are visible on the recto sides.

Binding

Post-1600, red cloth binding. The binding used to contain a fragment of a parchment leaf; currently named as flyleaf in digital surrogate; see front flyleaf (i) and back flyleaf (i).

M. Gaster's label on spine: '581 ... וזולת וכ' יקר'.

History

Origin: 1650-1651 Germany (Worms)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription by Isaac Alexander Honig on f. 39v and back flyleaf (i)r: יצחק בר אלכסנדר הוניק מק"ק ווערמיישה

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 581; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 April 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10641 (digital images currently unavailable)

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