MS. Bodley Or. 167
Oriental Manuscripts Bodley Oriental
Contents
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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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.