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Record Id:
040-003367256
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Add MS 11830
Title:
Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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040-003367256
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Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.

 

Add MS 11830 : Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
179 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1375
End Date:
1384
Date Range:
1375-1384
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Samuel Butler
Ya῾aḳov Tsoref
Yisra᾿el ben Daniyel
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 11830

Maḥzor, Ashkenazi rite

Contents

Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, Ashkenazi rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-179v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור

f. 22r 1 decorated initial word in ink.

1 marginal drawing in ink. f. 20v

See further [Davidson_1924] and [Butleriana_1841] .

The lections of the Torah are written twice in parallel columns, once with the vowels and accents and once without. Cf Add MS 22413.

ff. 1r-96r
Title: Services for the first day

Shaḥarit (folio 1r) contains the same poetical pieces as in Or. 42.

Musaf starts on folio 55r (also the same as in Or. 42).

ff. 96r-179v
Title: Services for the second day

Shaḥarit begins on folio 96r, musaf begins on folio 140v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the last quarter of the 14th century, before 1384.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 179 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

179 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

18 quires: i10-1(folios 1-9), ii-xviii10(folios 10-179).

There are catchwords at the end of the quires.

Quires are numbered with Latin letters starting at the end of the codex with ‘a’.

Condition

The first leaf of the first quire is missing.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 18

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

8 unfinished initial words (folios 1v, 32v, 62v, 73v, 78r, 97r, 155v, 159v).

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the last quarter of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Binding of the Bibliotheca Butleriana: light brown leather, tooled, with the coat of arms of the Bibliotheca Butleriana.

Spine: 'Mahzor. New Year's Feast. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Butl. Add. Or. 11,830.'

History

Origin: ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note, partially illegible:Yisra᾿el ben Daniyel (?) of Lisbon bought the book for 25 reals in 1384 (folio 179v).

Ya῾aḳov Tsoref: inscribed with his name on the margin: ‘I, Ya῾aḳov Tsoref, bought this mahzor for a significant amount of money, [5]454 AM (1694 CE) (folio 86v).

Remains of an erased inscription in Latin characters on front flyleaf (i)v.

1841

Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: his sale catalogue, Payne & Foss, 1841, no. 550, purchased by the British Museum: inscribed (folio [180v]).

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=Add_MS_11830 (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. 672.

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.
    [Butleriana_1841] Samuel Butler. 'Bibliotheca Butleriana. A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, Etc.'London: Payne & Foss, 1841.

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