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

Title

Maḥzor

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5686
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5686
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy, N. (Reggio di Emilia). Part I: Italy, N. (Reggio di Emilia) Part II: Italy, N. (Bologna) Part III: Italy.

Summary

A festival prayer book, with miscellaneous works in the margins.

Extent

449 folios (+2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end), 2 unoliated leaves after f. 384. Part I: Folios 1-384. Part II: Folios 385-418. Part III: Folios 419-449.;

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather. Spine: 'Liturgia Hebraica. Cum Commentariis. Libri Ruth. Cantis. Eccles. Thren. Et Esther. Maimonides De Anima. Etc. Preces. Psalmi et Hymni. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Bibl. Harl. 5686 Plut. XXVIII B.'

Layout

1 column(s); ruled lines: 26-59; written lines: 26-59; Uniform layout. Visible hard-point ruling. Pricking is visible in quire xlv. Initial words written in larger characters. Hebrew foliation from folio 8. Erasures (e.g., folios 78r, 179v, 187v, 331v, 380r, 436r).

Script

Part I: Italian semi-cursive and Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated. Leon ben Yoshu῾ah de Rossi of Cesena inscribed with his name in a colophon, Reggio di Emilia, [5]226 (or [5]224?) [1466 or 1464] (folio 377v). The workshop of one of the artists of Duke Borso d'Este, probably Giorgio d'Alemagna.Part II: Ashkenazi square and Italian semi-cursive script, partially punctuated. Yitsḥaḳ ben Obadiah ben Daṿid of Forli: inscribed in the colophon, Bologna, 23 Elul, [5]187 [1427], folio 418v.Part III: Italian semi-cursive, partially punctuated.

Provenance

• Yitsḥaḳ ben Obadiah ben Daṿid of Forli
   
• Yosef Kohen ben Shelomoh Kohen
   
• Leon ben Yoshu῾ah de Rossi of Cesena
   
• Yo᾿av Emanu᾿el Finzi
   
• Hippolite of Ferrara
   
• 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 mensis Januarii, A.D. 1723/4' (folio 1r). 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.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Services for week-days
• fol. 28v — Services for Shabat
• fol. 47r — Services for Rosh ḥodesh
• fol. 61v — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 90r — Shevaḥot
• fol. 96r — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 112r — Seder Ta῾anit
• fol. 156r — Seder ha-ma῾amadot
• fol. 177v — Services for Rosh ha-shanah
• fol. 195v — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 285v — Piyuṭim for Ta῾anit
• fol. 293v — Services for Sukot
• fol. 325v — Poetical pieces
• fol. 332r — The Five Scrolls
• fol. 375r — Pirḳe avot
• fol. 377v — The benedictions for hafṭarot
• fol. 385r — Sefer Tahanunim ספר תחנונים
• fol. 419v — Psalms and various litugical texts