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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5794
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5794
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A service-book for the New Year's feast according to the German rite, but influenced in some particulars by other rites.

Notes

• A Latin description of the manuscript has been pasted on folio 73v.
   

Extent

74 folios; 74 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house, black with gold-tooled Harleian coat of arms. Spine: 'Services for the New Year. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harl. Or. 5794.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 21 22; written lines: 21 22; Uniform layout. Largely decorated. Some parts written in red ink (e.g. 55v, 56r, 57r).

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive, punctuated, of the 17th century. Mosheh Bili ben Yuda᾿ and the first owner of the manuscript, which he wrote for himself: inscribed, folio 3r.

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, '15 Augusti 1715' (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. 3r — Seder ῾erev Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 11v — Seder shaḥarit shel Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 42v — Musaf for the first day
• fol. 50v — Seder lel sheni
• fol. 53r — Seder yom sheni