Description of British Library, Add MS 18690: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2023-02-01 2023-02-01 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 18690: 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 18690: 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. Stained. Defective at the end. Leaves missing after folio 271. Ḥananael ben Yitsḥaḳ: inscribed, folio 264r. Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (fl. 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 276v); see 61, and appendix § 62-74. Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1610' (folio 276v), see , appendix § 85-87. 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 18690 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18690 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A daily prayer book with services according to both the Spanish and Italian rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for the week-days 84v Services for sabbath 120v Additional portions 130r Prayers for festivals 160v Hagadah for Passover 180v Pirḳe avot 198v Ma῾aseh ha-Torah 211v Targum yerushalmi 226v Benedictions 246v Hilkhot sheḥitah 251r Calendar 264v Moreh nevukhim 272r Sheloshah ῾asar ῾iḳarim

Parchment

 276 folios; 276 folios Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Varying number of columns a page. Visible ruling by hard point: bifolium by bifolium on hair-side, and leaf by leaf on hair-side. Visible pricking in outer margins only, quire by quire, on recto. Last written line within ruling. Graphic filler at the end of line. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable. Sefardi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Post-1600, black leather. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. Breviarum Precum Ritus Italici. Cum Psalmis. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 18,690.'

Between 1332 and 1350

Provence Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: purchased by the British Museum from him on 24 May 1852: inscribed, folio [277v].