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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 11830
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11830
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

Festival prayer book (maḥzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, Ashkenazi rite.

Notes

• The first leaf of the first quire is missing.
   

Extent

179 folios; 179 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Binding of the Bibliotheca Butleriana: light brown leather, tooled, with the coat of arms of the Bibliotheca Butleriana. Spine: 'Mahzor. New Year's Feast. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Bibl. Butl. Add. Or. 11,830.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 19; written lines: 18; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. 8 unfinished initial words (folios 1v, 32v, 62v, 73v, 78r, 97r, 155v, 159v). Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Script

Ashkenazi square, punctuated, of the last quarter of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Yisra᾿el ben Daniyel
   
• Ya῾aḳov Tsoref
   
• Acquisition: Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: his sale catalogue, Payne & Foss, 1841, no. 550, purchased by the British Museum: inscribed (folio [180v]).
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Services for the first day
• fol. 96r — Services for the second day