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Detailed record for Additional 26897
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| Title |
Festival prayer book (mahzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, Ashkenazi rite |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
1st half of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Isaac? |
| Decoration |
1 folio with text framed by an arcade in ink (f. 121v). 2 decorated initial words framed by an arcade in ink (f. 47v, 101). 6 decorated initial words, in ink (ff. 18v, 32v, 37, 84, 223, 310). 1 initial word in colours (f. 341). 1 decorated catchword (f. 37v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
315 x 270 (225 x 160) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 380 (+ 3 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
39 quires: i5 (ff. 1-5), ii8 (ff. 6-13), iii8 (ff. 14-21), 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 (ff. 78-85), xii8 (ff. 86-93), xiii8 (ff. 94-101), xiv8 (ff. 102-109), xv8 (ff. 110-117), xvi8 (ff. 118-125), xvii8 (ff. 126-133), xviii8 (ff. 134-141), xix8 (ff. 142-149), xx8 (ff. 150-157), xxi8 (ff. 158-165), xxii8 (ff. 166-173), xxiii8 (ff. 174-181), xxiv8 (ff. 182-189), xxv8 (ff. 190-197), xxvi8 (ff. 198-205), xxvii6 (ff. 206-211), xxviii8-1 (ff. 212-218), xxix4 (ff. 219-222), xx8 (ff. 223-230), xxi8 (ff. 231-238), xxii8 (ff. 239-246), xxiii8 (ff. 247-254), xxiv8 (ff. 255-262), xxv8 (ff. 263-270), xxvi8 (ff. 271-278), xxvii8 (ff. 279-286), xxviii8 (ff. 287-294), xxix8 (ff. 295-302), xxx8 (ff. 303-310), xxxi8 (ff. 311-318), xxxii8 (ff. 319-326), xxxiii8 (ff. 327-334), xxxiv8 (ff. 335-342), xxxv8 (ff. 343-350), xxxvi8 (ff. 351-358), xxxvii8 (ff. 359-366), xxxviii8 (ff. 367-374), xxxix8-2 (ff. 375-380). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Isaac, scribe?: the name Yitzhak is marked many times, e.g., on ff. 6v, 20v, 47, 52, 57, 185v, 267, 268v, 320.
Eliezer bar David, owner: sold to Hannah bat Yehiel on Thursday 23 of Adar Sheni, [5]266 [1506]: inscribed in a purchase note (f. 380v).
Yiddish inscription (f. 380v).
Hannah bat Yehiel given to her son Yequtiel as a gift on 23 Adar [5]280 [1520]: inscribed in a note (f. 380v].
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 6; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. 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). |
| Notes |
Watermark, f. [381], of a monogram of VCF.
Deletions, words, passages crossed out by a censor numerous times (e.g., ff. 2v, 7, 7v, 12, 15, 29v, 33, 46, 68v, 71, 159v-160, 164-164v, 165v-166, 241v, 262v-263v, 309, 319).
Pricking and ruling are visible.
ff. 206-222 were incorporated later. Accordingly, the catchword on f. 205v fits to the text on f. 223. |
| 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. 657. |
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f. 32v
Decorated initial word |
f. 47v
Decorated initial word |
f. 101
Kol Nidrei |
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f. 121v
Text framed by arcade |
f. 223
Decorated initial word |
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