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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 7618
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_7618
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

A festival prayer book with services for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, according to the German rite.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning and at the end. Several lacunae.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

107 folios; 107 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Boxed. Spine: 'Mahzor. New Year and Day of Atonement. German Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harley 7618.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 27; written lines: 26; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and plummet ruling. Initial words written in much larger characters. Hair side and flesh side distinguishable.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 13th century. Yehoshu῾a ben Menaḥem ha-Leṿi ha-Naḳdan: inscribed, folio 90r.

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.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Services for the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 5r — Services for the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 25r — Services for Yom Kipur