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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19780
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19780
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Africa, N.

Summary

A festival prayer book, according to the rite of Algiers.

Notes

• Foxed paper.
   
• Yosef Neḳaṿah (?): inscribed, folios 56r, 188r.
   
• An anonymous entry, dated 8 Adar 5680 (1708): inscribed, folio 188r.
   

Extent

189 folios; 189 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Machazor. Secundum Ritum Algerensum. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,780.'

Layout

Columns: 1 4; ruled lines: 22; written lines: 22; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Script

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [189v].
   

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 of the 4th of Marḥeshvan
• fol. 17v — Seder parashat Sheḳalim
• fol. 23v — Seder parashat Zekhor
• fol. 33r — Tiḳun yom Purim
• fol. 35v — Seder parashat Parah
• fol. 40v — Seder parashat ha-ḥodesh
• fol. 46r — Azharot
• fol. 49v — Seder ha-Pesaḥ
• fol. 94r — Seder ḥag Shavu῾ot
• fol. 128r — Seder ḥag Sukot