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Title:
Maḥzor in Yiddish, minhag Ashkenaz.
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
401 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Isaac ben Mordekhai ha-Kohen
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Add MS 27071

Maḥzor in Yiddish, minhag Ashkenaz.

Contents

Ashkenazi festival prayer book in Yiddish translation.

Language(s): Yiddish, Hebrew

ff. 2r-401v
Title: מחזור ביידיש, מנהג אשכנז
Title: Maḥzor be-yidish, minhag Ashkenaz

A volume containing a number of festival Services from the Ashkenazi rite, translated into a 'Judeo-German dialect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as used by a scribe from Krakau' (Margoliouth). Parapharistic and midrashic translations.

The headings of the prayers are in Hebrew, while the text is entirely in Yiddish.

Also contains the Five Megilot translated into Yiddish.

The main text of the prayers is supplemented by comments and directions on usage in smaller script, often in red ink.

It is possible that the scribe also decorated the MS.

The name Yitsḥaḳ is decorated in several places (e.g. ff. 199v, 282v).

Colophon: אכט דז אייך גאט אונ' די וועלט ליב הוט. אונ' אין דען מחזור זייט אייך פרייען . דו ווערט אין זוכה זיין לעולם הבא אין דען גן עדן צו דער מייען. די ברכות זולט איר האבין פון מיר יצחק בר מרדכי הכהן ז"ל הנקר' יצחק לנקוש מקראקא דער ארמי שרייבר... f. 186v

The initial words are generally illuminated, often with zoomorphic motifs, in multicoloured ribbon patterns. After the twelfth quire, the initial words are often sketched in black ink, but not consistently painted.

ff. 2r-50r
Title: Seliḥot

For the seven days preceding the Eve of Rosh ha-Shanah and for the latter day itself.

ff. 50v-99v
Title: Services for the First Day of Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 100r-146r
Title: Services for the Second Day of Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 146v-153r
Title: Selihot for Tsum Gedalia.
ff. 153v-186v
Title: Selihot for the remaining days of ʿAśeret Yeme Teshuvah
ff. 187r-189v
Title: Yotser for Shabat Teshuvah
ff. 190r-207r
Title: Services for Yom Kipur
ff. 207v-373v
Title: שיר היחיד
ff. 374v-378r
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 378v-381r
Title: Ruth
ff. 381v-385v
Title: Lamentations
ff. 386r-394r
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 394v-401v
Title: Esther

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines. Watermark: armillary shpere with a countermark consisting of the letters SRP; similar to Briquet no. 13989, a Venetian paper dated 1558. (The description of watermark is from Prager-Brad Sabin Hill, 'Yiddish Manuscripts in the British Library', p. 102, n29; the cataloguer of the current record did not manage to find the watermark, only the countermark).
Extent: 401 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 357 × 235 mm.
Dimensions (written): 270 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Some parts of the MS are severely damaged by iron gall ink corrosion.

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Initial word are in larger, square script, most of the time decorated.

Ruling in ink is visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive and square script of the 16th century; in brown and red ink. Copied by Isaac ben Mordekhai ha-Kohen, called Isaac Lankosh of Cracow.

Decoration

Decorated initial words, sometimes in colours.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house. In phase box.

Title on spine: 'Machzor. German Use. Part I. Germ. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,071.'.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Ashkenaz

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on f. 2r, upper margin, in Italian Hebrew cursive script: הגיע לחלק כמהר"ר אבטליון מיקותיאל י"צ כשחלק עם אחיו ע"י ישראל(?) ריביירה יצ' יו ליליו שנת ליא' . The date is not clear. According to Margoliouth, 'if the stroke bearing to the right under the נ of שנת indicates the year of Creation (5)350, this would be answer to A.D. 1590.'

Purchase note on f. 1r: אני טולצליה קניתי זה הספר מכ"ר יוסף חזן בעד הדו...

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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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. 684.
    Birnbaum, Salomo A. 'Zur Geschichte der u-Laute im Jiddischen', in / A Lifetime of Achievement. Wissenschaftliche Aufsätze aus sechs Jahrzehnten / Six Decades of Scholarly Articles, ed. Erika Timm (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011), p. 161.
    Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary, ed. Jerod C. Frakes (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 103-108, no. 28.
    Prager, Leonard and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish manuscripts in the British Library"British Library Journal (1995): p. 81-108, esp. p. 85.

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