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Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2735
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2735
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

France

Summary

A festival prayer book, according to the (old) French rite.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• On guards.
   

Extent

185 folios; 185 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Mahazor. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS 2735.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 19; Uniform layout. The number of lines in the margin varies considerably. The text of folios 170r-185v is written in two columns, and the commentary occupies the upper, lower and outer margin. Some of the margins are cut away. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger decorative characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. Numerous marginal notes and additions. Censor's erasures, e.g., folios 111r, 126v.

Script

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive scripts, punctuated, of the 13th to 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Chaim M. Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (folio [186v])
   

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 — Portions of Passover services
• fol. 17r — Portions for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 50v — Pirḳe avot
• fol. 79r — A series of ma῾arivim shel Pesaḥ
• fol. 91r — A series of ma῾arivim shel Shavu῾ot
• fol. 95r — A series of ma῾arivim shel Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 97v — Ma῾arivim shel Sukot
• fol. 110r — The prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur
• fol. 138r — Hosh῾anot
• fol. 157r — Services for Simḥat Torah
• fol. 165r — Yotsrot
• fol. 170r — Portions of Ketubot ṿe-Ḳidushin