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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19664
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19664
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

France
Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book, according to the (old) French rite.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning.
   
• Lacunae after folios 3, 11, 19.
   
• Much damaged in the margins.
   
• Stained.
   
• Folios 100-106 are fragments of appended pieces (much damaged).
   

Extent

106 folios; 106 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. German Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Or. 19,664.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 21; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Some marginal notes and additions.

Script

Ashkenazi (French) square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 13th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher: (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153: purchased from him on 12 November 1853: inscribed (folio [107v]).
   

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 — Portions for Rosh ḥodesh (fragment)
• fol. 2r — The order of hafṭarot for the whole year
• fol. 3r — Benedictions
• fol. 4r — Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 12r — Birkat nisu᾿in
• fol. 20r — Services for Sukot
• fol. 40r — Rules and special pieces for Ḥanukah and Ta῾aniyot
• fol. 42v — Special Sabbaths
• fol. 45r — Parts of the Passover services
• fol. 67r — Evening services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 82r — Calendar
• fol. 100r — Additional pieces