[Maḥazor minhag Ashkenaz le-Yamim ha-noraʼim ule-Sukot]
[מחזור מנהג אשכנז לימים הנוראים ולסוכות.]

Description
Quires at the beginning and end of the maḥazor are missing. It now begins in the middle of Musaf for Rosh ha-Shanah. Pages have been cut in a few places, perhaps because of censure.
Creator
Kauffman, Felix I. (former ownter)
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Hebrew
Manuscripts, Medieval
Date
1275
Language
Hebrew
Subject
High Holidays -- Liturgy -- Texts
High Holidays -- Liturgy
Sukkot -- Liturgy -- Texts
Sukkot -- Liturgy
Mahzorim -- Texts
Mahzorim
Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts
Judaism -- Liturgy
Extent
251 leaves : parchment ; 305 x 215 (220 x 145) mm bound to 315 x 253 mm
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, 251; [1-221, 223-252], modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.
Decoration: Illuminated words; some ornamentation at head of certain prayers; red ink used by second hand (after f. 156) to decorate a few headings; single leaves missing after f. 201, f. 217, and f. 241, probably because they had illuminated headings for the prayers that began on those leaves.
Layout: Written in 21 lines to a page.
Script: Written in Ashkenazic square script (vocalized) by two hands.
Binding: Leather, blind-tooled, right cover detached; remnant of one strap on left cover and 2 catches on right cover; paper label with Hebrew inscription on spine.
Origin: Written in the Rhineland in the late 13th or early 14th century (Elisabeth Hollender).
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Hebrew.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30z71143
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 382
Provenance
Sold by Dr. Felix Kauffman, probably to Louis N. Cassett (pencil note inside right cover).
Gift of Louis N. Cassett to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription on Dropsie bookplate, inside right cover).
Cassett, Louis N., former owner.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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