[Maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah : Western Ashkenaz rite].
[מחזור לראש השנה : נוסח אשכנז-מערבי].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

קליר, אלעזר.

Standardized Title:

Maḥzor. Rosh ha-Shanah Ashkenaz.

מחזור. ראש השנה. אשכנז.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Maḥzor. High Holidays--Liturgical use--Germany--Bavaria.

Maḥzor.

Shofar--Liturgy.

Shofar.

Jews--Germany--Bavaria--14th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Genre:

mahzorim.

marginalia (annotations)

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number Colker Ms. 041); purchased by Colker from Quaritch in 2003 (Christie's).

Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (November 28, 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.

Physical Description:

2 leaves : parchment ; 389 x 226 (290 x 170) mm.

Other Title:

היום הרת עולם.

אשא דעי בצדק.

Place of Publication:

[Bavaria?], [1300?-1350?].

[בוואריה?], [1300?-1350?].

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript portion of an early 14th century German Maḥzor; surviving are two leaves, possibly originally conjugate leaves of a quire, from the chazzan's repitition of Musaf of the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah. The first surviving text begins מה לאדמה יזכור (a line of the last stanza of the piyut by Kallir of זכר תחילת כל מעש); the piyut continues directly into ככתוב בתורתך ויזכור אלהים את נח (from the Amidah liturgy) representative of the Western Ashkenazic rite; it also does not have the stanzas recited for the martyrs of the crusades (generally in the rite of the Rhineland cities), therefore probably originating in the region of Bavaria. The version used for the blessing of Rememberences reads ועקדת יצחק לזרעו ישראל ב[רחמים יזכור], one of the earlier examples to do so (Maḥzor of Worms vol. 2 fol. 26r); notably this rite excludes איום in the anonymous refrain stanza היום הרת עולם (f. 1v; compare Maḥzor of Worms f. 23r and subsequent refrains).

Notes:

Ms. leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Parchment, 2; [2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.

Script: Written in a German-Ashkenazic medieval square script; rubricated letters and words (f. 1v-2r; היום in red and black pattern (f. 1v)); vocalization and plosive marks; inverted commas (for paragraph endings); one catchword (f. 1v) and contemporary correction (f. 2v).

Layout: Written in 23 lines; paragraph headings in large majuscules, justified into columns (אלהינו, היום (f. 1v); אשא (f. 2r)); stanzas written in two columns (f. 2r-v).

Origin: Written likely in Bavaria, probably during the first half of the 14th century.

Item darkened, with some parchment adhesions at original gutter and center of f. 1.

Marginalia (glosses on the piyut text) in a faint 14th century German-Ashkenazic semicursive script in at least two different hands (f. 2r-v).

Decoration: Pen work (crowns, circles, and bulbs) around אשא (f. 2r).

Related Collections:

The substantial manuscript of the Western Ashkenaz rite, written close to the writing of this manuscript (with a similar program of in-line rubrics) is the Maḥzor of Worms; written in Würzburg, circa 1280, now at the The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

Cited as:

Maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah : Western Ashkenaz rite (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 622). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Kallir, Eleazar. Zekher teḥilat kol maʻaś.

Ha-yom harat ʻolam.

Eśa deʻi be-tsedeḳ.

קליר, אלעזר. זכר תחילת כל מעש.

היום הרת עולם.

אשא דעי בצדק.

OCLC:

1373900918

Access Restriction:

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