Description of British Library, Add MS 26986: Maḥzor (מחזור)contributorIlana TahancatalogerAgata PaluchThe Polonsky FoundationBritish LibraryThese images and the content of British Library Add MS 26986: 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 26986: 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 and at the end.Leaves missing after folio 82 and 218.Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.United KingdomLondonBritish LibraryHebrew Manuscripts Digitisation ProjectAdd MS 26986http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26986https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscriptsFestival prayer book (maḥzor), Ashkenazi rite.HebrewMaḥzor (מחזור)1rServices for the second day of the New Year22vServices for Yom Kipur175rServices for Sukot219vServices for special Sabbaths (fragment)
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222 folios; 222 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 21; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and plummet ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are indistinguishable. Censor's erasures: folios 40r, 85v, 86r.Ashkenazi square, punctuated, of 14th century.
Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 98: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, folio [224v] .