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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5682
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5682
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning.
   
• Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1585-1624): inscribed with his name, 1598 (folio 139v); see 61, and appendix § 62-74.
   
• Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1623 (folio 139v); see 100-101William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969).
   
• A note relating to berit milah, mentioning Rafa᾿el ben Shemu᾿el of Modena, undated: folio 140v.
   

Extent

140 folios; 140 folios

Foliation

Hebrew foliation has been preserved.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Liturgies. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 5682.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling and pricking. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Script

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

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: inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '18 die Januarii, A.D. 1723/4' (folio 2r). 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. 2r — Seder Taḥanunim
• fol. 15v — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 34r — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 137v — Additional pieces