• Ms. 440




    Categories

    Liturgy
    Haggadah
    Manuscript

    Mahzor (Italy)


    Manuscript ID:
    Ms. 440

    Place:
    Italy (?)

    Date:
    1400s or 1500s, before 1555

    Description:
    ink on parchment;4, 260 leaves (32 x 22 cm); Sephardi square Hebrew characters

    Former Owner:
    Hermine Schonthal

    Subject:
    Liturgy; Haggadah


    This first volume of an Italian Mahzor includes a Haggadah (98v-) and Pirke Avot with Maimonides’ commentary (143v-). It is written in an expert hand and contains unpublished piyyutim. A note on the initial leaf indicates Netanel Trabotto (a noted 16th-century Italian copyist) let his brother, Yisrael Nahman Trabotto, acquire the manuscript.

     

    Digitization of this manuscript was made possible through the generosity the Hornik Family Foundation.


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/959335037


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