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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2088
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2088
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

A festival prayer book, according to the Italian rite.

Notes

• Much stained.
   
• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   

Extent

180 folios; 180 folios

Foliation

Late Hebrew foliation between folios 9-180 (א-קסא), and four wrongly marked leaves after folio סו.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Machzor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2088.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Visible pencil and hard-point ruling. Visible pricking. Initial words written in larger characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Quire signatures occasionally enclosed within pen and ink design, e.g. folio 94v.

Script

Italian square script of the 15th century. Punctuated.

Provenance

• Acquisition: D.A. Berliner: purchased from him by the British Museum on 31 October 1878: inscribed, [182v].
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Seliḥot le-'aseret yeme teshuvah
• fol. 8v — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 27r — Services for Yom Kipur
• fol. 145r — Services for Sukot