Description of British Library, Add MS 19064: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19064: 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 19064: 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. Defective at the end. Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 231v); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56. Owner's inscription in Italian, partially illegible: 'Questo lib[ro] .. David a Samuel .. Moise Borghi (?) (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 19064 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19064 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A festival prayer book. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Keter malkhut כתר מלכות 8v Services for week-days 16r Seder Shabat 24r Seder Rosh ḥodesh 26r Seder Ḥanukah 27v Seder ῾Asarah be-ṭevet 29v Seder arba῾ parashiyot 37v Seder Pesaḥ 54v Seder Shavu῾ot 70r Seder shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz 72v Hilkhot ta῾anit ṿe-seder ṭeṭ be-av 88v Seder ma῾amadot 106r Seder Rosh ha-shanah 119v Tsom Gedalyah 122v Seder Yom Kipur 182v Seder Sukot 209v Dinim

Parchment

 231 folios; 231 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 38; written lines: 38; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are indistinguishable. Erasures presumably by the censor (e. g. folios 15r, 116v, 224v, 227r). Unfoliated blank leaf after folios 105, 208. Italian square script of the 15th century, punctuated. Micha᾿el (?): the name Michael is decorated (folio 168r).

Pre-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled, with remains of clasps. Spine: 'Machazor. Ritus Italici. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis 19,064.'

Between 1400 and 1499

Italy Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: inscribed, [232v].