Description of British Library, Add MS 16916: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 16916: 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 16916: 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. Leaves missing after folio 79, 87, 100, 108. Defective at the end. 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 16916 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16916 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Maḥzor'). Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah 28v Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah 48v Services for Yom Kipur

Parchment

 142 folios; 142 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Several marginal notes in a semi-cursive script. Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Ḥayim: the word ḥayim is decorated (e.g. folios 10r, 31r, 37v, 67r, 103v, 133r, 133v).

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Mahazor for New Year & Day of Atonement. German Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 16,916.'

Between 1250 and 1349

Germany Acquisition: Purchased at a sale at Pattich's (?) 24 Apr. 1847, lot. 465 (folio [143v]).