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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 26955
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26955
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

The second part of a festival prayer book.

Notes

• Last four leaves slightly damaged.
   

Extent

263 folios; 263 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather. Spine: 'Machzor. Roman Use. Part II. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,955.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Visible ink ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Script

Italian square script of the 15th century. Punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 65: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 throughAdolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, [264v].
   

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 — Seder Taḥanunim
• fol. 38r — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 63v — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 224v — Services for Sukot