• Ms. 389




    Categories

    Liturgy
    Manuscript

    Mahzor


    Manuscript ID:
    Ms. 389

    Place:
    Germany

    Date:
    between 1300s and 1508-1509

    Description:
    ink on parchment; 122 leaves (20.5 x 14.5 cm); Ashkenazi square and Rabbinic Hebrew characters

    Copyist:
    Alexandri ben Avraham ha-Kohen

    Former Owner:
    Yitsḥaḳ ben Asher (Itsik Mülhausen)

    Subject:
    Liturgy


    Ashkenazi Mahzor including: the morning service beginning with pesuke de-zimrah; service for Rosh Hodesh and the pilgrim festivals; serviced for fast days; Haggadah (without Had Gadya); Pirke Avot (mutilated); and a fragmentary Rosh ha-Shanah service. The Igul shel Rav Nahshon (leaf 119-end) was added by a later hand dated 268-269 [1508-1509]. The phrase (יקח אפייא)—eppa, öppa, eppes, etc.—indicates Bavarian/Alemannic dialects, which gives some indication of where the manuscript was produced. The colophon (leaf 83r) indicates the copyist, Alexandri ben ha-kadosh R. Avraham ha-Kohen, completed the text for his son in law, Barukh ben Shemu’el. The date of the colophon is “74,” i.e. 1314, but this is unlikely. More likely it is to be read “200,” i.e., 1440. Leaves 1-29 are in an earlier, 14th-century hand. The final section (leaf 119-end) are dated to 1508-1509. The text contains ornamental capitals and head words.


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1294479776


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