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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 17058
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17058
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Maḥzor for several festivals.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacuna after folio 10.
   
• Several leaves damaged in the upper part.
   
• Some marginal notes.
   

Extent

264 folios; 264 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Machazor Secundum Ritum Synagogae Romanea. Mus. Brit. Additional 17,058.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 30; Section titles and initial words written in larger characters. Complete ruling by hard-point visible. Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 October 1847: inscribed (folio [265v]): Macdonald's sale, lot 174.
   

Related resources

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Poetical pieces
• fol. 11r — Services for Rosh ha-shanah (fragments)
• fol. 18v — Seder Yom ha-kipurim
• fol. 119r — ῾Inyan Sukot
• fol. 155r — ῾Inyan Ḥanukah
• fol. 163r — ῾Inyan ῾asarah be-ṭeveṭ
• fol. 168v — Special fasts
• fol. 175r — Four special sabbaths
• fol. 180v — ῾Inyan tsom Ester ve-Purim
• fol. 187v — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 236r — Masekhet avot
• fol. 242r — ῾Inyan Shavu᾿ot