Description of British Library, Add MS 11830: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 11830: 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 11830: 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. The first leaf of the first quire is missing. 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 11830 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11830 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, Ashkenazi rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for the first day 96r Services for the second day

Parchment

 179 folios; 179 folios 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. Ashkenazi square, punctuated, of the last quarter of the 14th century.

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.'

Between 1375 and 1384

Unknown Yisra᾿el ben Daniyel Ya῾aḳov Tsoref Acquisition: 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]).