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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5013
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5013
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Ottoman Empire

Summary

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

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Shem Ṭov ben Shelomoh Zaḳun: inscribed, folio 1r.
   
• Records of circumcision of Avraham ben Mosheh Bolleli (?), dated 5556 (1796), and Shabtai ben Yehoshu῾a Musṭaḳi (?), dated 5557 (1797): inscribed, folio 56v.
   

Extent

56 folios; 56 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Services for New Year and Day of Atonement. Corfu Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 5013.'

Layout

Columns: 1 4; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Non-uniform layout. Varying number of columns a page. Visible hard-point ruling. Initial words written in larger characters. Catchwords on every page. Gilt edges.

Script

Sefardi (Greek?) square script, punctuated, of the 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Joseph Schlesinger: purchased from him on 13 May 1896: inscribed, folio [58v].
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of British Library Or 5013: Maḥzor (מחזור) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 5013: Maḥzor (מחזור). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Services for Rosh ha-Shanah
• fol. 22r — Services for Yom Kipur