Description of British Library, Add MS 26896: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26896: 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 26896: 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. A few leaves damaged. Part of the lower margin has been cut off in numerous folios. The folios after folio 94 and folio 368 are blank and unfoliated. Folio 1 is a kind of title-page with the scribe's adnotation. 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 26896 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26896 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for the Special Shabatot, Pesaḥ, Shavu῾ot with the Book of Ruth, and Ninth of Av with the Book of Lamentations, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Tinted Maḥzor'). Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r The first part of shaḥarit for the sabath and festivals 11r Services for Shabat, Ḥanukah, and the special pericopes 36v Yotser for the pericope of the month 125r Services for Pesaḥ 275r Services for Shavu῾ot 368r Services for the ninth of Av

Parchment

 404 folios; 404 folios Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 16 26; written lines: 15 25; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Numerous marginal notes and additions in different handwritings. Watermark on folio [405 recto] of a monogram VCF. Instead of catchwords, the end and the beginning of the quires are numbered with Hebrew characters included into decorated panels starting with alef (numerical value 1) on folios 15v-16r. Folio 7 is bound upside down. Numerous words and passages have been crossed out by a censor (e.g., folios 17r, 38r, 42v, 49v, 57r, 61r, 70r, 86r, 107v, 147r, 173r, 174v, 215r, 263r, 377v, 397r; entire poems, e.g., folios 58v-59v, 291v, 382v-383v). Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ: the name Yitsḥaḳ is marked many times, e.g. folios 10r, 17v, 36v, 51r, 77v, 284r, 307v.

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Machzor According to the German Use. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,896.'

Between 1300 and 1349

Germany Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: inscribed (folio [406v]).