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Title:
Maḥzor le-Yamim Noraʾim, minhag Tsefon Afriḳah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Extent:
100 folios (i+100+i)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
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Or 6579

Maḥzor le-Yamim Noraʾim, minhag Tsefon Afriḳah

Contents

Festival prayer book for the Days of Awe according to the Northern African rite (Tlemcen).

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-100v
Title: מחזור מנהג צפון אפריקה לימים נוראים
Title: Maḥzor minhag Tsefon Afriḳah le-Yamim Noraʾim

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Note on f. 98r by a different hand: התחלתי אותו ו לח’ אלולול[!]...

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 100 folios (i+100+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 223 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; f. 1 = f. יח; according to this, at least 17 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Collation

Quires mostly of 6-8 leaves.

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Water damage, mould.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Section headings are in larger, square script (e.g. f. 25v), or in a larger calligraphic cursive script (e.g. f. 21v).

Running title.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Panel with ink decoration on f. 23v.

Additions:

Ff. 99-100: a fragment from "Hosha’anot for Sukkot" and a fragment from a kerovah for the shaharit of the first day of Rosh ha-Shana, from another Mahzor.

Binding

Title on spine: 'Service for New Year & Day of Atonement Rite of Tlemsan. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6579.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Algeria (Tlemcen)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought from M. N. Adler May 17. 1904'; date of accession May 1904.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6579 (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), vol. IV. p. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

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