Description of British Library, Add MS 16577: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 16577: 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 16577: 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. Avraham ben Ya῾aḳov: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription (folio 287v). Kalonymos Finziim (Panziim?; of the Finzi/ Panzi family?: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, undated (folio 1r). Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110. Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1611 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56. Antonio Franc. Enriques (fl. in Urbino): inscribed with his name, 1688 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 44. Marginal inscription: an attempt to copy Franguellus' signature (folio 103v). 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 16577 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16577 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A festival prayer book, according to the Italian rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for week-days 13v ῾Inyan Shabat 29v ῾Inyan Rosh ḥodesh 35r Seder ῾Asarah be-ṭevet 37v Seder arba῾ah parashiyot 48r Seder ῾Inyan Pesaḥ 84r Pirḳe avot 108r Seder Shavu῾ot 126r ῾Inyan arba῾ah tsomot 149v ῾Inyan ta῾anit 166r Seder ma῾amadot 177r ῾Inyan Rosh ha-shanah 188v Seder Yom Kipur 260v ῾Inyan ḥag ha-Sukot

Parchment

 287 folios; 287 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 35; written lines: 35; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Parallel Hebrew foliation. Gilt edges. Censors' erasures (e.g., folio 2r, 8v, 154r, 155v, 178v, 183r). Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century, partially punctuated.

Pre-1600. Red velvet, with clasps. Rebound in-house in brown leather (both bindings preserved). Spine: 'Machazor Liber Precum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 16,577. Plut.'

Between 1450 and 1474

Italy Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum in 1847.