Description of British Library, Add MS 19780: 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 19780: 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 19780: 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. Foxed paper. Yosef Neḳaṿah (?): inscribed, folios 56r, 188r. An anonymous entry, dated 8 Adar 5680 (1708): inscribed, folio 188r. 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 19780 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19780 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A festival prayer book, according to the rite of Algiers. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for the week of the 4th of Marḥeshvan 17v Seder parashat Sheḳalim 23v Seder parashat Zekhor 33r Tiḳun yom Purim 35v Seder parashat Parah 40v Seder parashat ha-ḥodesh 46r Azharot 49v Seder ha-Pesaḥ 94r Seder ḥag Shavu῾ot 128r Seder ḥag Sukot

Paper

 189 folios; 189 folios Columns: 1 4; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Leaf catchwords on every verso. Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 17th century.

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. Secundum Ritum Algerensum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,780.'

Between 1600 and 1699

Africa, N. Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [189v].