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Detailed record for Oriental 42
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| Title |
Festival prayer book (mahzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah and the Yom Kippur, and beginning of Sukkot, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Dragon's Head Mahzor') |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Abraham? |
| Decoration |
Text framed by and arch inhabited by hybrids in ink (f. 58). 11 inhabited initial words in ink and sometimes with red (ff. 1, 10v, 17v, 26v, 30, 44v, 46, 58, 58v, 110, 140v). Image of a hybrid next to an initial word in ink (f. 27v). 3 drawings in ink next to the catchwords (ff. 51v, 59v, 163v). Drawings of small dragon heads in ink decorating the first letters of lines on 12 folios (ff. 47, 53, 61, 62, 63, 64, 78, 78v, 79, 79v, 126, 144v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
435 x 310 (270/265 x 200/190) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 163 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
20 quires: i8 (ff. 1-8), ii8-1 (ff. 9-15), iii8 (ff. 16-23), iv8 (ff. 24-31), v10 (ff. 32-41), vi10 (ff. 42-51), vii8 (ff. 52-59), viii8 (ff. 60-67), ix8 (ff. 68-75), x8 (ff. 76-83), xi8 (ff. 84-91), xii8 (ff. 92-99), xiii10 (ff. 100-109), xiv8 (ff. 110-117), xv8 (ff. 118-125), xvi10 (ff. 126-135), xvii8-1 (ff. 136-142), xviii8 (ff. 143-150), xix5 (ff. 151-155), xx8 (ff. 156-163). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Abraham, scribe?: the name Avraham is marked on f. 110.
Joseph Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum on 25 May 1867 (f. [165v]). |
| Notes |
The manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
Lower margin has been cut off numerous times (ff. 56, 57, 84, 86, 87, 105, 119, 125, 126, 127, 131, 149, 152).
Pricking and ruling are visible.
Erasures (e.g., ff. 81v, 85) or passages drawn across (e.g., ff. 18, 24v, 25, 35v, 87v, 102, 108v, 109v, 121, 121v, 128v, 158), entire poem drawn across (ff. 96v-97, 98-99, 99-99v, 153v).
The word ‘Moie’ is written in Latin characters in the upper margin of folio 68v, and ‘Mojs’ in the upper margin of folio 107v. |
| Select bibliography |
Israel Davidson, Otsar ha-shirah veha piyut: mi-zeman hatimat kitve ha- kodesh ad reshit tekufat ha-haskalah [Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry] (New York: Bet midrash ha-Rabanim de-Amerikah, 1924-1933) [on the text].
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), II, no. 668.
Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles' New Letter of the Center for Jewish Art 12 (1996) http://cja.huji.ac.il/NL12-HIMBI.htm (accessed on 17 December 2010). |
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f. 1
Inhabited initial word |
f. 10v
Inhabited initial word |
f. 26v
Inhabited initial word |
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f. 27v
Hybrid |
f. 44v
Inhabited initial word |
f. 58v
Inhabited initial words |
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f. 140v
Zoomorphic letter |
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