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Detailed record for Additional 26896
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| Title |
Festival prayer book (mahzor) for the Special Shabbatot, Passover, Shavuot with the Book of Ruth, and Ninth of Av with the Book of Lamentations, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Tinted Mahzor') |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
1st half of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Isaac |
| Decoration |
8 medallions of zodiac signs, in colours, some unfinished (ff. 153-155v). Numerous marginal drawings in ink, red and green. 6 inhabited initial words/initial-word panels in colours (ff. 32v, 78v, 130v, 329, 351v, 368). 9 initial words accompanied by animals and hybrids in colours (ff. 125, 239, 255v, 259v, 287v, 308v, 332, 337v, 361v). 14 decorated initial-word panels and large initial words in ink and red, some unfinished (ff. 11, 29v, 51v, 68v, 95, 113v, 166v, 189v, 199v, 216v, 250, 279, 341, 363v). Numerous smaller decorated initial words in ink, red, green. Hybrid in medallion between initial words (f. 304v) Zoomorphic letter (f. 335v). Numerous passages decorated with leaves at their first lines. |
| Dimensions in mm |
305 x 230 (225/195 x 140) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 404 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
52 quires: i8-1 (ff. 1-7), ii8 (ff. 8-15), iii8 (ff. 16-23), iv8 (ff. 24-31), v8 (ff. 32-39), vi8 (ff. 40-47), vii8 (ff. 48-55), viii8 (ff. 56-63), ix8 (ff. 64-71), x8 (ff. 72-79), xi8 (ff. 80-87), xii8 (ff. 88-[95a]), xiii8 (ff. 95-102), xiv8 (ff. 103-110), xv8 (ff. 111-118), xvi2 (ff. 119-120), xvii4 (ff. 121-124), xviii7 (ff. 125-131), xix8 (ff. 132-139), xx8 (ff. 140-147), xxi8 (ff. 148-155), xxii8 (ff. 156-163), xxiii8 (164-171), xxiv8 (ff. 172-179), xxv8 (ff. 180-187), xxvi8 (ff. 188-195), xxvii8 (ff. 196-203), xxviii8 (ff. 204-211), xxix8 (ff. 212-219), xxx8 (ff. 220-227), xxxi8 (ff. 228-235), xxxii8 (ff. 236-243), xxxiii8 (ff. 244-251), xxxiv8 (ff. 252-259), xxxv8 (ff. 260-267), xxxvi8 (ff. 268-275), xxxvii8 (ff. 276-283), xxxviii8 (ff. 284-291), xxxix8 (ff. 292-299), xl8 (ff. 300-307), xli8 (ff. 308-315), xlii8 (ff. 316-323), xliii8 (ff. 324-331), xliv8 (ff. 332-339), xlv8 (ff. 340-347), xlvi8 (ff. 348-355), xlvii8 (ff. 356-363), xlviii8 (ff. 364-370), xlix8 (ff. 371-378), l8 (ff. 379-386), li8 (ff. 387-394), lii8+2 (ff. 395-404). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Isaac, scribe? : the name Yitzhak is marked many times, e.g. ff. 10, 17v, 36v, 51, 77v, 284, 307v.
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 5: inscribed (f. [406v]); his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see David Paisey, 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, anglophile and friend to Panizzi', in The British Library Journal, 23 [1997], 131-53): inscribed (f. [406v]). |
| Notes |
Watermark on f. [405] of a monogram VCF. Instead of catchwords, the end and the beginning of the quires are numbered with Hebrew characters included into decorated panels starting with alef (numerical value 1) on ff. 15v-16.
f. 7 is bound upside down.
Numerous words and passages have been crossed out by a censor (e. g., ff. 17, 38, 42v, 49v, 57, 61, 70, 86, 107v, 147, 173, 174v, 215, 263, 377v, 397; entire poems, e.g., ff. 58v-59v, 291v, 382v-383v). Part of the lower margin has been cut off in numerous folios. The folios after f. 94 and f. 368 are blank and unfoliated. |
| Select bibliography |
Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 11 (in the Hebrew part).
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. 656.
Zofia Ameisenowa, 'Animal-Headed Gods, Evangelists, Saints and Righteous Men', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 12 (1949), 21-45 (p. 28).
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. 304.
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. 32v
Inhabited initial word |
f. 78v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 125
Dogs |
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f. 125
Dogs |
f. 130v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 130v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
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f. 153
Aries |
f. 153v
Taurus and Gemini |
f. 154v
Leo and Virgo |
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f. 154v
Leo and Virgo |
f. 155v
Sagittarius and Pisces |
f. 166v
Decorated initial word |
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f. 184
Devil |
f. 184
Devil |
f. 209v
Deer |
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f. 209v
Deer |
f. 259v
Deer and dog |
f. 259v
Deer and dog |
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f. 308v
Dogs |
f. 329
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 337v
Hybrid |
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f. 337v
Hybrids |
f. 341
Stork and dog |
f. 341
Dog and stork |
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f. 351v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 351v
Inhabited initial-word panel |
f. 353v
Dragons |
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f. 353v
Dragons |
f. 359v
Lion |
f. 359v
Lion |
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f. 361v
Dogs |
f. 367v
Hybrids |
f. 368
Inhabited initial word |
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