Description of British Library, Add MS 10456: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 10456: Maḥzor (מחזור) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 10456: Maḥzor (מחזור). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Cologne: reference to the town in captions, 'This is the seder of Ḳolonya' (folio 92v), and 'This is the end of the seder of Ḳolonya' (folio 140r). Mainz: reference to the town in a caption, 'Here I start the seder of Mentsa', folio 140r. Worms: reference to the town in later marginal notes (folios 44v, 92v, 137r). Yudah Leib ben Yeshayahu Preger: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, dated 1719 (folio 172v). Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 10456 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10456 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for the Special Shabatot, Pesaḥ and Shavu῾ot, according to the Ashkenazi rite, with the Books of Ruth and Song of Songs. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1v Yotser for Shabat and Ḥanukah 6r For the pericope 'Sheḳalim' 14r Yotser for Shabat of the pericope 'Zekhor' 22v Poetical pieces for Purim 28v For the pericope 'Parah' 36v Yotser for the pericope of the month 43v Yotser for the great Shabat 50v Yotser for the first day of Pesaḥ 65r Yotser for the second day of Pesaḥ 73v Yotser for Shabat of ḥol ha-mo῾ed of Pesaḥ 78v Yotser for the seventh day of Pesaḥ 92v Yotser for the last day of Pesaḥ 108v Yotser for Shavu῾ot 137r Yotser for the second day of Shavu῾ot 163v The book of Ruth 168r The Song of Songs

Parchment

 172 folios; 172 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16 22; written lines: 15 21; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Edges coloured in red. Jerusalem as the place of production is mentioned only in the later complement pasted onto folio 1, but not in the original colophon on folio 172v. Ashkenazi square script, punctuated. Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov: his colophon: 'I, Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov the scribe, wrote this book for Rabbi Yo᾿el bar Shim῾on ha-Leṿi. I finished this book on 8 Shvat 109 of the fifth millenium of the creation of the world. Grow stronger and let us grow stronger. May no harm befall the copyist until the donkey ascends the ladder to the heavens' (1349) (folio 172v); inscription naming the scribe Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov and Jerusalem, 1349, as the place of production and date on an early modern additional parchment leaf pasted onto folio 1, perhaps a copy of an original inscription now missing.

Post-1600. Binding in velvet and silk. Spine: 'Preges Paschales et Pentecostales. Hebraice. Codex A. C. 1349. Exaratus. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 10,456. Plut CCXXVIIIE.'

1349

Germany Acquisition: Thomas Rodd, the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum in May 1836.