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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 19945
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19945
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Florence, Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book according to the Italian rite, volume 2.

Notes

• Losses to leaves at edges.
   
• Usage stains.
   

Extent

177 folios; 177 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Spine: 'Machazor Secundum Ritum Italicum. Hebraice. Pars II. Mus. Brit. Add. Or. 19,945.'

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 distinguishable.

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, folio 169v. Decorated by Zanobi Strozzi.

Provenance

• Camillo Jaghel
   
• Luigi da Bologna
   
• Renato da Modena
   
• Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Montalcino
   
• Yisra᾿el ben Yitsḥaḳ of Pisa
   
• 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] of volume 1).
   

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 — Piyutim פיוטים
• fol. 53r — Parashiyot פרשיות
• fol. 58v — Tefilot תפילות
• fol. 61r — Seder ma῾amadot סדר מעמדות
• fol. 68v — ῾Inyan Rosh ha-Shanah ענין ראש השנה
• fol. 79r — Seder Yom Kipur סדר יום כפור
• fol. 146v — ῾Inyan ḥag ha-Sukot ענין חג הסוכות