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Detailed record for Additional 16916
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| Title |
Prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'London Days of Awe Mahzor') |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
2nd half of the 13th century or the 1st half of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Hayyim |
| Decoration |
1 initial-word panel inhabited by birds, dragons, and hybrids in ink (f. 1). 2 initial words decorated with geometrical motifs/inhabited by hybrids and dragons in brown ink (ff. 28v, 48v). 8 marginal decorations in brown ink (ff. 1, 2, 5, 5v, 7, 19v, 22, 142).
3 erased marginal illustrations (ff. 21v, 29v, 42) 5 decorated catchwords (ff. 69v, 77v, 84v, 90v, 98v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
305 x 220 (210 x 140) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 142 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Collation |
19 quires: i8-1 (ff. 1-7), ii8 (ff. 8-15), iii6 (ff. 16-21), iv8 (ff. 22-29), v8 (ff. 30-37), vi8 (ff. 38-45), vii8 (ff. 46-53), viii8 (ff. 54-61), ix8 (ff. 62-69), x8 (ff. 70-77), xi8-1 (ff. 78-84), xii6 (ff. 85-90), xiii8 (ff. 91-98), xiv8-1 (ff. 99-105), xv6-1 (ff. 106-110), xvi8 (ff. 111-118), xvii8 (ff. 119-126), xviii8 (ff. 127-134), xix8 (ff. 135-142). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Hayyim, the scribe: the word hayyim is decorated on ff. 10, 31, 37v, 67, 103v, 133, 133v).
Purchased at a sale at Pattich's (?) 24 Apr. 1847, lot. 465 (f. [143v]). |
| Notes |
Pricking and ruling are often visible. |
| 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. 670.
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. 19v
Dragon |
f. 48v
Kol nidre |
f. 62
Yom Kippur |
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f. 84v
Griffin |
f. 84v
Griffin |
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