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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2772
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2772
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

GermanyWorms

Summary

A festival prayer book, according to the Franco-German rite.

Notes

• Defective at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Leaves missing after folio 304 and 307.
   

Extent

310 folios; 310 folios

Foliation

The first number of the original foliation is 128 (first 127 leaves have been lost).

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Machzor. A.D. 1328. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2772.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 17; written lines: 16; Uniform layout. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger decorative characters. Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable. A few marginal notes and additions.

Script

Ashkenazi square script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: L. Cohen: purchased by the British Museum from him on 06 May 1884 (folio [312v])
   

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 — Prayers for shaḥarit and musaf of Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 17r — Prayers for Yom Kipur
• fol. 27v — Hosh῾anot
• fol. 47r — The service for Simḥat Torah
• fol. 65r — Hagadah for Passover
• fol. 92v — Pirḳe avot
• fol. 122v — A series of poetical pieces
• fol. 297r — Calendar (fragments)