Description of British Library, Add MS 18967: Maḥzor (מחזור)

Description of British Library, Add MS 18967: 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 18967: 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 18967: 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 folios 55, 70, 80, 88, 127. Stained. Anshel Humel Segal of Frankfurt [am Main]: inscribed, folio 2r, 135v. Shim῾on ben Eli῾ezer: inscribed in a pen and ink floral design, Nisan [5]377 (1617): folio 40r. 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 18967 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18967 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

A festival prayer book with services for the special Sabbaths, Pesaḥ and Shavu῾ot according to the German rite.

Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r The four special Sabbaths and Purim 32v Yotser le-Shabat ha-gadol 38r Services for Pesaḥ 88v Services for Shavu῾ot

Parchment

135 folios; 135 folios Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 26; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are hardly distinguishable. Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Pre-1600, contemporary. Beige leather, blind tooled, with metal centrepiece, cornerpieces and clasps. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. Ux[...]tum Germanicum. Hebraice.'

Between 1300 and 1399

Germany Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: purchased from him on 12 June 1852, inscribed (folio [136v]).