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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19666
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19666
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book.

Notes

• Much stained.
   
• One leaf lost after folio 29.
   
• Avraham Asher ibn Yitsḥaḳ London: inscribed in a note, Sivan [5]605 [1845]: folio 3r.
   
• Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1585-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 278v); see 61, and appendix § 62-74.
   
• Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 287v); see 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.
   
• Several birth entries, inscribed on the flyleaves: Colomba daughter of Shemu᾿el and Juditta Ravenna, 17 Iyar 1680 (folio 2r); Bila Viola, daughter of the same parents, 9 Siṿan 1682 (folio 2r); Shemu᾿el Barukh, son of Rivkah, daughter of Eli῾ezer of Cologna, 29 Marheshvan 1644 (folio 279r); Yosef David, son of the same parents, 22 Kisleṿ 1646; Mordekhai , son of the same parents, 12 Adar 1657 (folio 279r); Riḳah, daughter of Immanuel Pinto and Juditta, 15 Elul 1672 (folio 279r); a son of the same parents, 9 Siṿan 1674 (folio 279v); Avraham, 2 Tamuz 1676 (folio 280r); Barukh Mordekhai, son of Yosef Ravenna and Tamar, 13 Iyar 1683 (folio 281r); Cremesina, daughter of the same parents, 23 Sivan 1685 (folio 281r); Shemu᾿el, son of the same parents, 11 Kisleṿ 1688 (folio 281r); Diamanta, daughter of the same parents, 2 Siṿan [....] (folio 281v).
   

Extent

281 folios; 281 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. Secund Ritum. Romanum. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,666.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 27; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Folios 250 and 251 are a later restoration.

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, [282v].
   

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. 3r — Services for the week-days
• fol. 28v — Services for Shabat
• fol. 36v — Services for Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 40r — Services for Ḥanukah
• fol. 44v — Ta῾anit
• fol. 51v — Arba῾ah parashiyot
• fol. 63r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 99r — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 115v — Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz
• fol. 119v — Tish῾ah be-av
• fol. 137v — ῾Aseret yeme teshuvah
• fol. 152v — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 166v — Tsom Gedalyah
• fol. 169v — Services for Tsom Kipur
• fol. 252r — Services for Sukot
• fol. 272v — A series of small offices