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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5714
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5714
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A maḥzor containing the services for the special Sabbaths, Pesaḥ and Shavu῾ot, according to the German rite.

Notes

• Defective at the end.
   
• Folio 112 partly mutilated.
   
• A Latin description of the manuscript has been pasted on folio .
   

Extent

195 folios; 195 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Harleian thick red leather binding with gold-tooling. Spine: 'Pars T. Machazor Judaeorum Germanorum. Hebr. Cod. Sec. XIV. Mus. Brit. Bibl. Harl. 5714. Plut. XXXIII.I.' Boxed.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Last line written within the ruling. Pricking and ruling is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are hardly distinguishable. Initial words given in much larger bold square characters.

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 14th 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 Januarij, A.D. 1723/4' (folio ). 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. 2v — Services for the special Sabbaths
• fol. 56r — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 134v — Services for Shavu῾ot