Description of British Library, Add MS 17055: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 17055: 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 17055: 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 21, 26, 126, 167. A former owner's note, dated [5]216 (1456): folio 1r. 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 17055 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17055 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, Ashkenazi rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah 32r Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah 57r Services for Yom Kipur

Parchment

 188 folios; 188 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and plummet ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Some of them highlighted with red ink (e.g. folio 105v, 167r). Hair side and flesh side are hardly distinguishable. Several marginal notes in a semi-cursive script. Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Mahazor for New Year and Day of Atonement. Ashkenazzi Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,055.'

Between 1300 and 1399

Germany Acquisition: Thomas Rodd, the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 October 1847, Macdonalds' sale, lot 165: inscribed, folio [189v].