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

Title

Maḥzor Yom Kipur (מחזור יום כיפור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5530
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5530
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Africa, N.

Summary

A festival prayer book for Yom Kipur, according to the rite of North Africa.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning.
   
• Folios 1, 7r, 45v, 251v-252v, 261r-268r are later.
   
• Several leaves damaged and damp, with loss of text.
   
• Last leaf mutilated.
   
• Folios 2r-6v: a piece by Moses ibn Ezra (the beginning is missing).
   
• Folio 1r contains a Latin description of the manuscript.
   
• Folio 1v contains an index of poetical pieces between folios 8r and 254v, in later Sefardi cursive hand.
   

Extent

268 folios; 268 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Red leather, gold tooled. Boxed. Spine: 'Mahzor. African Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harl. Or. 5530.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 16; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Script

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script, of the 13th to 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

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. 7v — Ma῾ariv
• fol. 46r — Shaḥarit
• fol. 129v — Musaf
• fol. 198r — Minḥah
• fol. 251v — Appendices