Hebrew and Judaica Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

MS. Bodley Or. 167

Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental

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Maḥzor for the Days of Awe and Sukkot, Western Ashkenazi rite

ff. 1r-186v
Maḥzor for the Days of Awe and Sukkot according to the Western Ashkenazi rite מחזור מנהג אשכנז המערבי לימים נוראים ולסוכות

Marginal notes by various hands containing minhagim and lexicographical remarks.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Extent: ff. 186
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Layout

Text in one column.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script.

Decoration

Inhabited full-border on fol. 1r.

Carmina figurata (e.g. fols. 49r)

Decorated initial-words (e.g. fols. 51r, 51v)

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind tooled, remains of textile straps.

History

Origin: Cologne? (Germany); ca. 1300

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought with part of £40 presented by Sir George More in 1604.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 1036, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 1036, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 22622

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1036.
    Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 1036.

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