Description of British Library, Add MS 19781: 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 19781: 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 19781: 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. Severely water-damaged. Folios 1-4 are a later addition. Ye᾿udah ha-Kohen Yeḥonatan, dated [5]482 (1722): inscribed in an owner's entry, as well as in an entry of sale to Shabtai ben Molkho, dated [5]494 (1734), folio 1v. A pencil entry beginning 'Avraham Zanun', 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 19781 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19781 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A festival prayer book for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, according to a North African rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Services for Rosh ha-Shanah 84r Services for Yom Kipur

Paper

 210 folios; 210 folios Irregular original foliation. Columns: 1 4; ruled lines: 22 23; written lines: 22 23; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Leaf catchwords on every verso. Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 16th or 17th century.

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Ordo Precum In Novum Annum. Et In Die Expiationis. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,781.'

Between 1500 and 1699

Africa, N. Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [211v].