Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 10456
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10456
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for the Special Shabatot, Pesaḥ and Shavu῾ot, according to the Ashkenazi rite, with the Books of Ruth and Song of Songs.

Notes

• Cologne: reference to the town in captions, 'This is the seder of Ḳolonya' (folio 92v), and 'This is the end of the seder of Ḳolonya' (folio 140r).
   
• Mainz: reference to the town in a caption, 'Here I start the seder of Mentsa', folio 140r.
   
• Worms: reference to the town in later marginal notes (folios 44v, 92v, 137r).
   
• Yudah Leib ben Yeshayahu Preger: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, dated 1719 (folio 172v).
   

Extent

172 folios; 172 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Binding in velvet and silk. Spine: 'Preges Paschales et Pentecostales. Hebraice. Codex A. C. 1349. Exaratus. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 10,456. Plut CCXXVIIIE.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16 22; written lines: 15 21; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Edges coloured in red. Jerusalem as the place of production is mentioned only in the later complement pasted onto folio 1, but not in the original colophon on folio 172v.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated. Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov: his colophon: 'I, Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov the scribe, wrote this book for Rabbi Yo᾿el bar Shim῾on ha-Leṿi. I finished this book on 8 Shvat 109 of the fifth millenium of the creation of the world. Grow stronger and let us grow stronger. May no harm befall the copyist until the donkey ascends the ladder to the heavens' (1349) (folio 172v); inscription naming the scribe Neḥemiah bar Ya῾aḳov and Jerusalem, 1349, as the place of production and date on an early modern additional parchment leaf pasted onto folio 1, perhaps a copy of an original inscription now missing.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Thomas Rodd, the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum in May 1836.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of British Library Add MS 10456: 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/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  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 10456: 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.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Yotser for Shabat and Ḥanukah
• fol. 6r — For the pericope 'Sheḳalim'
• fol. 14r — Yotser for Shabat of the pericope 'Zekhor'
• fol. 22v — Poetical pieces for Purim
• fol. 28v — For the pericope 'Parah'
• fol. 36v — Yotser for the pericope of the month
• fol. 43v — Yotser for the great Shabat
• fol. 50v — Yotser for the first day of Pesaḥ
• fol. 65r — Yotser for the second day of Pesaḥ
• fol. 73v — Yotser for Shabat of ḥol ha-mo῾ed of Pesaḥ
• fol. 78v — Yotser for the seventh day of Pesaḥ
• fol. 92v — Yotser for the last day of Pesaḥ
• fol. 108v — Yotser for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 137r — Yotser for the second day of Shavu῾ot
• fol. 163v — The book of Ruth
• fol. 168r — The Song of Songs