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

Title

Maḥzor (מחזור)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5978
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5978
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Corfu

Summary

A daily prayer book according to the rite used in Corfu.

Notes

• Stained.
   

Extent

178 folios; 178 folios

Foliation

Original Hebrew foliation is preserved.

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Mahzor. Corfu Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5978.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Initial words written in larger characters. Punctuated.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Dr L. Bulleli: purchased from him by the British Museum on 30 March 1901: inscribed, [179v].
   

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. 3r — Morning prayers
• fol. 30r — Piyuṭim
• fol. 35r — Prayers for special Sabbaths
• fol. 66v — Services for Pesaḥ
• fol. 122v — Services for Shavu῾ot
• fol. 142r — Services for Sukot