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Detailed record for Additional 9405
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| Title |
Biblical readings from a festival prayer book (mahzor): Song of Songs, Ruth, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
1309 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square script, punctuated; Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated |
| Scribe |
Solomon ben Jehiel |
| Artists |
Decoration probably by the scribe. |
| Decoration |
4 initial words with accompanying dragons (ff. 1, 3v, 6, 12 ), and a pen drawing (f. 11v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
250 x 190 (160/165 x 125) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 14 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 unfoliated older paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
2 quires: i8 (ff. 1-8), ii6 (ff. 9-14). Catchword on f. 8v. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Brown leather, tooled. |
| Provenance |
Colophon: I, Solomon bar Jehiel wrote this mahzor for R. .. bar Abraham, 5069 year of the creation of the world, on 8 Nisan (in volume 2, Add 9406, f. 32v).
Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: his bookplate with Greek inscription: ho theos agape estin (inner upper cover). |
| Notes |
Two volumes (Add 9405 and 9406).
Pricking an ruling often visible.
For colophon, see Add. 9406. |
| Select bibliography |
J. B. B. Clarke, A Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the European and Asiatic Manuscripts in the Library of the late Dr. Adam Clarke (London: John Murray, 1835), p. 114.
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), I, no. 143.
Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 303. |
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f. 1
Dove |
f. 3v
Dragon |
f. 6
Dragon |
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f. 11v
David and Goliath |
f. 12
Jeremiah |
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