Tripartite Mahzor, volume 3 — ca. 1322; [Ashkenaz] | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Tripartite Mahzor, volume 3 — ca. 1322; [Ashkenaz]

Shelfmark

MS. Michael 619

Associated place

Krakow

Place of origin

[Ashkenaz]

Date

ca. 1322

Language

Hebrew

ff. 1v-293r Mahzor according to the Western Ashkenazi rite for the High Holidays (Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur) מחזור מנהג אשכנז המערבי לימים נוראים

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

ff. 293

Decoration

Nine initial word panels. The illustrations are related stylistically to the Duke of Sussex Pentateuch (London, British Library, MS Add 15282) and the Gradual of Saint Katharinental (Zürich, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Frauenfeld, LM 26117).

Carmina figurata (e.g. fols. 31v, 113v, 154r)

Acquisition

It belonged to the library of Heimann Joseph Michael (1792-1846), which was purchased en bloc (altogether 862 volumes) by the Bodleian Library in 1848 through Messrs. Asher and Co. for £1030.

Provenance

False colophon on fol. 293r: אני מרדכי גימפיל מקראקא כתבתי המחזור הזה שנת מʹחʹזʹוʹר לפʺק ("I Mordekhai Gimpil of Cracow wrote this mahzor [in the] year 5261" [=1501]). Ownership inscription on fols. 1r and 293v: אני קלמן בר יוסף גרשון ("I Kalman ban Yosef Gershon").

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