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Detailed record for Oriental 2733
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| Title |
Festival prayer book (mahzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, Franco-German rite |
| Origin |
France |
| Date |
14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Ashkenazi square script, partially punctuated |
| Scribe |
Hayyim |
| Decoration |
1 decorated initial word in ink (f. 2v), and 2 pen drawings embedded into the text (ff. 6, 6v). 4 marginal drawings (ff. 4, 49, 57, 59), and 7 decorated catchwords (ff. 10v, 26v, 34v, 44v, 54v, 76v, 84v). Carmina figurata (ff. 6, 6v, 7, 44v, 50-51v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
255 x 190 (ff. 1-88: 170/185 x 125, ff. 89-90: 175 x 145) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 90 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and an older and 2 modern unfoliated flyleaves at the end. Quire numbering in upper right corner; quires viii and ix are equally numbered as 8). Parallel Hebrew foliation, which shows that the middle bifolio of quire viii is missing (ff. 66-67) |
| Collation |
11 quires: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii8 (ff. 11-18), iii8-1 (ff. 19-26), iv8 (ff. 27-34), v10 (ff. 35-44), vi12-2 (ff. 45-54), vii8 (ff. 55-62), viii8-2 (ff. 63-68), ix8 (ff. 69-76), x8 (ff. 77-84 ), xi6 (ff. 85-90). Catchwords often decorated. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Hayyim, scribe: the word hayyim is decorated (e.g. ff. 2v, 3v, 8, 19v, 44, 49, 51v, 87v).
Moshe Yehudah: inscribed with his name in Hebrew, next to it illegible signature in Latin letters with tha same ink (lower margin, f. 81v).
Emanuel deMiliyat?: inscribed with his name (f. 85v).
Chaim M. Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (f. [92v]) |
| Notes |
Numerous marginal notes by various hands. Pricking and ruling are often visible. Deleted paragraphs on ff. 36, 78v.
The last two folios (ff. 89-90) are from another manuscript.
Erasure (of censor?) e.g., ff. 36, 78v. |
| 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. 665. |
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f. 2v
Decorated initial word |
f. 44v
Decorated catchword |
f. 44v
Hybrid |
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f. 50v
Dragon |
f. 51
King |
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