[Fragment from a German Maḥzor].
[קטע ממחזור אשכנז].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

Dring, E.M., 1906-1990, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Maḥzor. Ashkenaz.

מחזור. אשכנז.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Maḥzor--Liturgical use--Germany.

Maḥzor.

Musaf.

Sabbath--Liturgy.

Sabbath.

Adar--Liturgy.

Adar.

Jews--Germany--13th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

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

Genre:

fragments (object portions)

mahzorim.

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. 044); purchased by Colker from the Dring Collection (Christie's; collectors E.H. Dring (1864-1928) or son E.M. Dring (1906-1990), parts of whose collections were sold by Quaritch).

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

Physical Description:

1 leaf : parchment ; 205 x 290 (155 x 207) mm.

Other Title:

אשכול אווי תאות כל נפש.

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [1250?-1350?].

[גרמניה], [1250?-1350?].

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript fragment of a leaf from the Maḥzor from the portion of the four ceremonial Sabbaths which precede Passover; the surviving text is from the liturgy of the Sabbath of the Shekalim, specifically portions of the piyut inserted into the Chazzan’s repetition of Musaf (the anonymous septet (שבעתא) opening with אשכול אווי תאות כל נפש recited before each conclusion). The surviving text begins with פנה נדמה לעופר and continues to שתעלנו בשמחה לארצינו (from the Musaf liturgy; recto), and picks up with הון וכבוד ועושר until the end of the second to last stanza (כסף שקלי כפורים / אור פניך etcetera); according to the division of text in this surviving portion of the leaf, the original leaf was probably double the height of the current size.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in stanzas of four lines each; paragraph captions built-in to text block; refrains and regular liturgical text centered.

Script: Written in a German Gothic square script (typical of 13th century Ashkenazic liturgy), with paragraph captions in large majuscules; piyut text vocalized.

Origin: Written in Germany, either at the second half of the 13th century of the beginning of the 14th century.

Item mounted on thick blue card, cut to size; tear at center affecting text; item likely survived in a binding.

Cited as:

Fragment from a German Maḥzor (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 625). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Eshkol iṿuy taʼaṿat kol nefesh.

אשכול אווי תאות כל נפש.

OCLC:

1374878365

Access Restriction:

Access to this item is subject to staff review (housed in flat lying box under Island 2).