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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 18229
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18229
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book.

Notes

• First three leaves much stained.
   

Extent

315 folios; 315 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post 1600. Black leather. Spine: 'Mahzor. Roman Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 18,229.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 29; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point and ink ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, [316v].
   

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 week-days
• fol. 14r — 'Inyan Shabat
• fol. 26v — 'Inyan Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 30v — 'Inyan Ḥanukah
• fol. 35v — ῾Asarah be-ṭevet
• fol. 46v — Arba῾ah parashiyot
• fol. 52r — Tsom Ester ṿe-Purim
• fol. 59v — Services for Shabat ha-gadol and Pesaḥ
• fol. 104v — 'Inyan Shavu῾ot
• fol. 131v — Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz
• fol. 138v — Tish῾ah be-av
• fol. 164r — ῾Aseret yeme teshuvah
• fol. 176r — 'Inyan Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 194r — Seder Yom Kipur
• fol. 287v — 'Inyan Sukot
• fol. 314v — Table of contents