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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27070
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27070
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Part 1 of a festival prayer book.

Notes

• Much stained.
   
• Eliyah Camerini: inscribed, folio 2r.
   
• Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1585-1624): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 299r); see 61, and appendix § 62-74.
   
• Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1618 (folio 298v); see 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.
   

Extent

299 folios; 299 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Machzor. Roman Use. Part I. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional. 27,070.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 30; written lines: 30; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Additional pieces are written in the margins.

Script

Italian square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Partially punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 175: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, [300v].
   

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 — Services for the week-days
• fol. 22r — Services for Shabat
• fol. 41r — Services for Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 44r — Services for Ḥanukah
• fol. 48v — Arba῾ah tsomot
• fol. 81r — Purim ṿe-Seder arba῾ah parashiyot
• fol. 93v — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 147r — Masekhet avot
• fol. 178v — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 209r — Shiv῾ah ῾asar be-tamuz ṿe-tish῾ah be-av
• fol. 237v — The Five Scrolls
• fol. 297v — Additional pieces