Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 1461
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Gaster Hebrew MS 1461
- Biblissima authority file
- Language
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- Hebrew
- Title
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- Maḥzor (מחזור | Prayer book)
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- Isaac ibn Ghiyyat (1038-1089)
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- Author
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- Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
- Ibn Ghiyyat, Isaac, 1038-1089
- אבן גיאת, יצחק בן יהודה, 1038-1089
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Moses Gaster (1856-1939)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Moses Gaster
- Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Biblissima portal
- Biblissima authority file
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- Description
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- Extent:
64 ff. (i+64) Leaf height: 140 mm, width: 103 mm. Written height: 101 mm, width: 75 mm.
Binding:
Brown marbled paper covering cardboard boards.
Acquisition:
Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
Layout:
Long line with maximum 15 written lines
Collation:
Catchwords at the bottom left corner of most pages, in semi-cursive script.
Script:
Oriental square script for the main textOriental semi-cursive script for the rubrics and catchwords
Data Source(s):
Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Subject(s):
Judaism Liturgy Texts; Prayer Judaism; Piyutim; Maḥzor
Abstract:
Incomplete, small-sized prayer book (mahzor) apparently of the rite of Corfu, containing prayer texts and liturgical poems for the seven days of Sukkot in Hebrew with extensive Hebrew liturgical instructions. Originally the mahzor must also have contained prayers and liturgical poems for (at least) Passover and Shavuot in view of the references to the other two pilgrim festivals in the text (see e.g 1a, 3a, 9a). Most of the text is vocalised. The tentative link with Corfu can be made due to the inclusion of a poem by Abraham ben Gabriel Zechariah of Corfu on folio 34a and the mention of 'Korfu' on the front paste-down by a modern hand. For a similar manuscript see Gaster Hebrew MS 1460.
Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the bottom half of the outer margin of side a of each folio.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Paper
Provenance:
Handwritten label on spine with number 1461.
Front paste-down: "Korfu" in lead pencil, "Sukkoth" in ink and "1461" in blue crayon.
Condition:
Bookworm holes towards spine.
Note(s):
The codex must represent a section of a larger text: it is incomplete both at the beginning, where the text begins in the middle of a rubric, and at the end, where a catchword appears. On the first pages we find the following:Psalm 76 (1a-b).
Liturgical poem 1 (2a-b). Incipit: אתלונן בצל מחורב בסכוך מנוצלי חורב. Alphabetical acrostic poem for the first evening service of Sukkot. Cf. א 8910.
Numbers 29:12, Leviticus 23:4 and Exodus 31:16-7 (3a).
Benediction followed by liturgical poem 2 (3b-4a). Incipit: יצב גבול שמם למקדש אשר שמם. Acrostic poem (reshut) by Isaac ibn Ghiyyat forming the name Isaac [יצחק]. Cf. י 3490.
And so forth.
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