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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 16577
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16577
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book, according to the Italian rite.

Notes

• Avraham ben Ya῾aḳov: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription (folio 287v).
   
• Kalonymos Finziim (Panziim?; of the Finzi/ Panzi family?: inscribed with his name in an owner's inscription, undated (folio 1r).
   
• Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 78, appendix § 105-110.
   
• Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1611 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 50-56.
   
• Antonio Franc. Enriques (fl. in Urbino): inscribed with his name, 1688 (folio 286r); see William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), appendix § 44.
   
• Marginal inscription: an attempt to copy Franguellus' signature (folio 103v).
   

Extent

287 folios; 287 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600. Red velvet, with clasps. Rebound in-house in brown leather (both bindings preserved). Spine: 'Machazor Liber Precum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 16,577. Plut.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 35; written lines: 35; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Parallel Hebrew foliation. Gilt edges. Censors' erasures (e.g., folio 2r, 8v, 154r, 155v, 178v, 183r). Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Script

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century, partially punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum in 1847.
   

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 week-days
• fol. 13v — ῾Inyan Shabat
• fol. 29v — ῾Inyan Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 35r — Seder ῾Asarah be-ṭevet
• fol. 37v — Seder arba῾ah parashiyot
• fol. 48r — Seder ῾Inyan Pesaḥ
• fol. 84r — Pirḳe avot
• fol. 108r — Seder Shavu῾ot
• fol. 126r — ῾Inyan arba῾ah tsomot
• fol. 149v — ῾Inyan ta῾anit
• fol. 166r — Seder ma῾amadot
• fol. 177r — ῾Inyan Rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 188v — Seder Yom Kipur
• fol. 260v — ῾Inyan ḥag ha-Sukot