Description of British Library, Add MS 19664: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19664: 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 19664: 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 beginning. Lacunae after folios 3, 11, 19. Much damaged in the margins. Stained. Folios 100-106 are fragments of appended pieces (much damaged). 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 19664 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19664 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A festival prayer book, according to the (old) French rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Portions for Rosh ḥodesh (fragment) 2r The order of hafṭarot for the whole year 3r Benedictions 4r Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah 12r Birkat nisu᾿in 20r Services for Sukot 40r Rules and special pieces for Ḥanukah and Ta῾aniyot 42v Special Sabbaths 45r Parts of the Passover services 67r Evening services for Shavu῾ot 82r Calendar 100r Additional pieces

Parchment

 106 folios; 106 folios Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Some marginal notes and additions. Ashkenazi (French) square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 13th century.

Post-1600. Brown leather. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. German Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Or. 19,664.'

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France Italy Acquisition: Adolphus Asher: (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: purchased from him on 12 November 1853: inscribed (folio [107v]).