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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19944
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19944
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

A festival prayer book according to the Italian rite, volume 1.

Extent

197 folios; 197 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Spine: 'Machazor Secundum Ritum Italicum. Hebraice. Pars I. Mus. Brit. Add. Or. 19,944.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 37; written lines: 37; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are indistinguishable.

Script

Italian semi-cursive script, partially punctuated, and Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ ben Ovadiah ben Daṿid of Forli (Gaio di Servadio), active in Florence 1441-1470, inscribed in the colophon of volume 2, Add MS 19945, folio169v. Decorated by Zanobi Strozzi.

Provenance

• Ya῾aḳov ben Shelomoh
   
• Marchion
   
• Camillo Jaghel
   
• Luigi da Bologna
   
• Renato da Modena
   
• Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 12 August 1854: inscribed (folio [198v]).
   

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. 2r — Index
• fol. 4r — Keter malkhut כתר מלכות
• fol. 19r — Services for week-days
• fol. 29r — Services for Shabat
• fol. 43v — Services for Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 46v — Services for Ḥanukah
• fol. 51r — Ta῾anit
• fol. 56v — Seder arba῾ parashiyot
• fol. 61v — Services for Purim
• fol. 67r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 112r — Masekhet avot
• fol. 139v — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 168r — Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-Tamuz
• fol. 172r — Tish῾ah be-Av