Description of British Library, Add MS 19945: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19945: 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 19945: 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. Losses to leaves at edges. Usage stains. 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 19945 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19945 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A festival prayer book according to the Italian rite, volume 2. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Piyutim פיוטים 53r Parashiyot פרשיות 58v Tefilot תפילות 61r Seder ma῾amadot סדר מעמדות 68v ῾Inyan Rosh ha-Shanah ענין ראש השנה 79r Seder Yom Kipur סדר יום כפור 146v ῾Inyan ḥag ha-Sukot ענין חג הסוכות

Parchment

 177 folios; 177 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 37; written lines: 37; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Italian semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, and Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ ben Ovadiah ben Daṿid of Forli (Gaio di Servadio), active in Florence 1441-1470, inscribed in the colophon, folio 169v. Decorated by Zanobi Strozzi.

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Spine: 'Machazor Secundum Ritum Italicum. Hebraice. Pars II. Mus. Brit. Add. Or. 19,945.'

1441

Florence, Italy Camillo Jaghel Luigi da Bologna Renato da Modena Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Montalcino Yisra᾿el ben Yitsḥaḳ of Pisa Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 12 August 1854: inscribed (folio [198v] of volume 1).