Maḥzor for the entire year, Italian rite — [mid-late 15th century]; [North Italy]

Title

Maḥzor for the entire year, Italian rite — [mid-late 15th century]; [North Italy]

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Or. 18

Date

[mid-late 15th century]

Language

Hebrew

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ff. 482

Hands

Fols. 308r-344v and 432r-481v (end) of Maḥzor are written by a different hand.

The marginal texts are written by three hands: Sefer Tanay (fols. 1r-170r) probably by the main copyist, the Pentateuch with Onḳelos and the Hafṭarot by another hand.

Maimonides' commentary on Avot (fols. 395r-405r) in a different hand altogether employing a Sephardi type of script.

Decoration

Decorations in red ink in the copy of the main scribe. carmina figurata (e.g. fols. 161r, 193v)

Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici's (1727-1805) collections passed to his brother Giuseppe, and on his death in 1807 to Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who divided them. To the former fell the MSS., then about 3550 in number, and, after many attempts to sell them, the Bodleian became the purchaser of the greater part in 1817, for £5444 5s. 1d., or including incidental expenses about £6030, the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. The formal list of volumes handed over was signed on May 18, 1817, and the books probably arrived later that year.

Provenance

Censor's signature: Cammillo Jaghel 1620 (fol. 481v)

Title

Common Prayers

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Or. 18

Date

Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Language

Hebrew

Physical extent

1 volume