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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1424
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1424
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain, N. E.Catalonia

Summary

Biblical readings and liturgical poems for Passover.

Notes

• Inscription in pencil: '129 Mahzorfragment' (folio 1v).
   

Extent

30 folios; 30 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Oriental style, tooled. Spine: 'Haggadah. Pesach. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1424.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 17; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. The decoration is closely related to the Kaufmann Haggadah, according to .

Script

Sefardi square and semi cursive script, partially punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1877.
   

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 — Fragments of parashayot and hafṭarot for Pesaḥ
• fol. 16v — Piyuṭim for Pesaḥ