Description of British Library, Add MS 26998: Maḥzor (מחזור) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library These images and the content of British Library Add MS 26998: 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 26998: 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. Stained. Avraham(?): perhaps the same scribe who also wrote MS Parma Palatina 2884, for the same patron in Bologna ca. 1400. Both manuscripts are festival prayer books, written in a similar style, with two last letters of the line often very elongated. Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomiyah: inscribed in the colophon with a date of 5057 (1397), Cento, folio 148v. Yo᾿el ben Yitsḥaḳ: inscribed in the colophon, folio 148v. Uzi᾿el Mikha᾿el of Camerino: inscribed, folio 1r. Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (fl.1575-1614): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 159r); see 61, and appendix § 62-74. Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (fl.1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1628 (folio 158v); see 100-101, and appendix § 80-84. 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 26998 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26998 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts A second volume of a festival prayer book, in the Italian rite. Hebrew Maḥzor (מחזור) 1r Seder ma῾amadot 11r Rosh ha-Shanah 22v Yom Kipur 122v Sukot 142v Piyuṭim 146r Smaller offices 150r Suplicatory prayers

Parchment

 159 folios; 159 folios Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 24 26; written lines: 24 26; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and ruling. Initial words are written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Last line of text written outside ruling. Italian semi-cursive and square script, punctuated, of the 13th century.

BM in-house. Spine: 'Machzor. Roman Use. Part II. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,998.'

1397

Italy, N.Cento Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 109: 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 [161v].