[Fragments of an Ashkenazic Maḥzor].
[קטעים ממחזור אשכנז].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

Standardized Title:

Maḥzor. Pilgrim Festivals

מחזור. שלש רגלים.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Maḥzor. Shavuot--Liturgical use--France--Grand Est--13th century.

Maḥzor.

Maḥzor. Shavuot--Liturgical use--France--Grand Est--14th century.

Shavuot--Liturgy.

Shavuot.

Piyutim.

Jews--France--Grand Est--13th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jews--France--Grand Est--14th century--History--Sources.

Grand Est (France)--Liturgy.

Grand Est (France).

Genre:

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, European.

mahzorim.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by an order of lay preachers (tertiaries of the Third Order of Saint Dominic) in Colmar, 1484 (inscription: "Biblia presens conuentui Columbariensi ordinis predicatorum pertinet | concessa fratri anthonio pistori predicti ordinis [...] in prefato conuentu | celebratur capitulum quod fuit anno domini 1484" - f. 1r).

Formerly owned by "ffrater Anselmus Hassolt | prior huius domi olim | anno 1555" (inscription, f. 2v).

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 MLC 029); purchased by Colker from B. Hoffman, London, in 1986 (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 ; 145 x 220 (45 x 136) mm.

Other Title:

אלפים שנה נמתקתי בחיכו.

אתו מצות וחקים באר הטיב חקוקים.

Place of Publication:

[Alsace?], [1275?-1350?].

[אלזס?], [1275?-1350?].

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This manuscript is of two fragments from an Ashkenazic Maḥzor codex for the Pilgrim Festivals; surviving is the lower portions of two leaves from the piyutim recited on the Shaḥarit of Shavuʻot, possibly what originally was the lower corners of two adjoined leaves. The surviving text on the first leaf is from stanzas of the anonymous אלפים שנה נמתקתי בחיכו; beginning [בתוך קהל] ועדה : [רחק איש שד]ה וקרב איש תם until חומות שנים עשר נחתמו [מזה חותם] (f. 1r), and [ואמר] להם יש לי טעם ביני ובין עם until וא ישראל [הוא נותן עז ותעצומות לעם] (f. 2r); the second leaf contains text from the successive אתו מצות וחקים באר הטיב חקוקים (the piyut of the Decalogue), beginning with [אין כמוך באלוהים] וידבר אלהים : [תתו קול עוז] אל אלים until סער צירים וחבלים (f. 1r), continuing with פודך מסבלות ענמים until תמורי אל לא-יהיה לך לא יהיה לך (f. 2v).

Notes:

Ms. fragment.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in long lines, of which four lines survive (five lines visible on f. 1r, 2v, with partial loss of text on top lines); blind frame-ruling on f. 1r and 2v; one folio written in two columns (f. 2r) and another, aligned center (f. 2v).

Origin: Written possibly in the Alsace, between 1275 and 1350 (Alsace at the exclusion of the rite of Ashkenaz Northern France; see Frenkel, Maḥzor Shavuʻot (Jerusalem: Koren, 2000) p. 190).

Script: Written in an Ashkenazic-Gothic square script; the script hand has Northern French influence; א-ל ligatures (f. 2r).

Related Collections:

Fragments of the origin manuscript also survive as the binding of a copy of Sermones de sanctis Jacobi de Voragine ([Strasbourg] : [Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], [1484] ; Médiathèque André Malraux, Strasbourg, Incunables et livres du 16ème siècle, C 27 (1) ; with inscriptions of identical origin (Judith Kogel).

Cited as:

Fragments of an Ashkenazic Maḥzor. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 640). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Alpayim shanah nimtaḳti be-ḥiko.

ʼIto mitsṿot ṿe-ḥuḳim ba-er heṭev ha-ḥuḳim.

אלפים שנה נמתקתי בחיכו.

אתו מצות וחקים באר הטיב חקוקים.

OCLC:

1379070916

Access Restriction:

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