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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19781
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19781
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Africa, N.

Summary

A festival prayer book for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, according to a North African rite.

Notes

• Severely water-damaged.
   
• Folios 1-4 are a later addition.
   
• Ye᾿udah ha-Kohen Yeḥonatan, dated [5]482 (1722): inscribed in an owner's entry, as well as in an entry of sale to Shabtai ben Molkho, dated [5]494 (1734), folio 1v.
   
• A pencil entry beginning 'Avraham Zanun', folio 1r.
   

Extent

210 folios; 210 folios

Foliation

Irregular original foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Ordo Precum In Novum Annum. Et In Die Expiationis. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,781.'

Layout

Columns: 1 4; ruled lines: 22 23; written lines: 22 23; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Leaf catchwords on every verso.

Script

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 16th or 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 08 April 1854: inscribed, folio [211v].
   

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 Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 84r — Services for Yom Kipur