Pigs in the Tripartite Mahzor - Revision history

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Gattabaissa: Tripartite Mahzor Zodiac moved to Pigs in the Tripartite Mahzor

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Tripartite Mahzor Zodiac moved to Pigs in the Tripartite Mahzor

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 [[Image:TripartiteMahzor_vol1_143r.jpg|250px|thumb|''Zodiac sign of Crab and the labor of month Tammuz. [http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-coll1.htm Tripartite Mahzor vol.1], Germany, Lake Constance, ca.1320; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kaufmann Collection, MS Kaufmann A384, fol.143a'']]
-In the first volume, the prayer for dew is decorated with zodiac signs and the labors of the months (fols.142r-145v). This image depicts the Crab (סרטן)together with the labor of month [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar Tammuz]]. The crab is portrayed here as a strange hybrid created from the limbs different animals: its body is that of a roar, its legs  are those of a frog, and its tail is a fish.
+In the first volume, the prayer for dew is decorated with zodiac signs and the labors of the months (fols.142r-145v). This image depicts the Crab (סרטן)together with the labor of month [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar Tammuz]]. The crab is portrayed here as a strange hybrid created from the limbs different animals: its body is that of a boar, its legs  are those of a frog, and its tail is a fish.
 ==Bibliography==

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 == The Tripartite Mahzor ==
-The Tripartite Mahzor is a fourteenth-century [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi]] prayerbook divided into three parts.  The first part is preserved in Budapest, in the [[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/index-en.html Kaufmann collection]] of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS A384). It contains prayers and piyyuts for the special Shabbats,  Purim, Pesah (Passover), and the Song of Songs. The second part (London, British Library Add. Ms. 22413) contains prayers and piyyuts for Shavuot, the Book of Ruth, Sukkot and the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the third volume (Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Michael 619) there are prayers and piyyuts for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur. While the size of the codices is different, the size of the text areas and the style of the illuminations are the same.  Therefore, the three volumes probably originally constituted a one- or two-volume codex, which began with Rosh ha-Shanah and ended with Shavuot.  It may have been cut and divided into three parts some time later. None of the volumes has a colophon. The only name given is that of the scribe. He was a certain Hayyim. His name is written at the end of the commentary to Ruth (“חיים חזק”, vol.2, fol. 80v), and this word is decorated in the text in another page of the same volume (fol.103v). A certain scribe Hayyim (חיים סופר) also copied the so-called Schocken Bible (Southern Germany, c.1300; Jerusalem, Schocken Library, Ms.14840), and two close stylistic relatives of the Tripartite Mahzor: the Pentateuch of the Duke of Sussex (Southern Germany; London, British Library, Add. Ms 15282)  and the Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Lake Constance Region, probably Konstanz, ca.1310; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. Heb. 75).
+The Tripartite Mahzor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kaufmann Collection, MS Kaufmann A384) is a fourteenth-century [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi]] prayerbook produced in the area of Lake Constance around 1320. It is divided into three parts. The first part is preserved in Budapest, in the [[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/index-en.html Kaufmann collection]] of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS A384). It contains prayers and piyyuts for the special Shabbats,  Purim, Pesah (Passover), and the Song of Songs. The second part (London, British Library Add. Ms. 22413) contains prayers and piyyuts for Shavuot, the Book of Ruth, Sukkot and the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the third volume (Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Michael 619) there are prayers and piyyuts for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur. While the size of the codices is different, the size of the text areas and the style of the illuminations are the same.  Therefore, the three volumes probably originally constituted a one- or two-volume codex, which began with Rosh ha-Shanah and ended with Shavuot.  It may have been cut and divided into three parts some time later. None of the volumes has a colophon. The only name given is that of the scribe. He was a certain Hayyim. His name is written at the end of the commentary to Ruth (“חיים חזק”, vol.2, fol. 80v), and this word is decorated in the text in another page of the same volume (fol.103v). A certain scribe Hayyim (חיים סופר) also copied the so-called Schocken Bible (Southern Germany, c.1300; Jerusalem, Schocken Library, Ms.14840), and two close stylistic relatives of the Tripartite Mahzor: the Pentateuch of the Duke of Sussex (Southern Germany; London, British Library, Add. Ms 15282)  and the Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Lake Constance Region, probably Konstanz, ca.1310; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. Heb. 75).
 The [http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-coll1.htm digitalized version] of the manuscript is available online.

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 The Tripartite Mahzor is a fourteenth-century [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi]] prayerbook divided into three parts.  The first part is preserved in Budapest, in the [[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/index-en.html Kaufmann collection]] of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS A384). It contains prayers and piyyuts for the special Shabbats,  Purim, Pesah (Passover), and the Song of Songs. The second part (London, British Library Add. Ms. 22413) contains prayers and piyyuts for Shavuot, the Book of Ruth, Sukkot and the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the third volume (Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Michael 619) there are prayers and piyyuts for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur. While the size of the codices is different, the size of the text areas and the style of the illuminations are the same.  Therefore, the three volumes probably originally constituted a one- or two-volume codex, which began with Rosh ha-Shanah and ended with Shavuot.  It may have been cut and divided into three parts some time later. None of the volumes has a colophon. The only name given is that of the scribe. He was a certain Hayyim. His name is written at the end of the commentary to Ruth (“חיים חזק”, vol.2, fol. 80v), and this word is decorated in the text in another page of the same volume (fol.103v). A certain scribe Hayyim (חיים סופר) also copied the so-called Schocken Bible (Southern Germany, c.1300; Jerusalem, Schocken Library, Ms.14840), and two close stylistic relatives of the Tripartite Mahzor: the Pentateuch of the Duke of Sussex (Southern Germany; London, British Library, Add. Ms 15282)  and the Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Lake Constance Region, probably Konstanz, ca.1310; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. Heb. 75).
-The [http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-coll1.htm digitalized] version of the manuscript is available online.
+The [http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-coll1.htm digitalized version] of the manuscript is available online.
 ===The zodiac sign of Crab===

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	The Tripartite Mahzor is a fourteenth-century [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi]] prayerbook divided into three parts. The first part is preserved in Budapest, in the [[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/index-en.html Kaufmann collection]] of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS A384). It contains prayers and piyyuts for the special Shabbats, Purim, Pesah (Passover), and the Song of Songs. The second part (London, British Library Add. Ms. 22413) contains prayers and piyyuts for Shavuot, the Book of Ruth, Sukkot and the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the third volume (Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Michael 619) there are prayers and piyyuts for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur. While the size of the codices is different, the size of the text areas and the style of the illuminations are the same. Therefore, the three volumes probably originally constituted a one- or two-volume codex, which began with Rosh ha-Shanah and ended with Shavuot. It may have been cut and divided into three parts some time later. None of the volumes has a colophon. The only name given is that of the scribe. He was a certain Hayyim. His name is written at the end of the commentary to Ruth (“חיים חזק”, vol.2, fol. 80v), and this word is decorated in the text in another page of the same volume (fol.103v). A certain scribe Hayyim (חיים סופר) also copied the so-called Schocken Bible (Southern Germany, c.1300; Jerusalem, Schocken Library, Ms.14840), and two close stylistic relatives of the Tripartite Mahzor: the Pentateuch of the Duke of Sussex (Southern Germany; London, British Library, Add. Ms 15282) and the Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Lake Constance Region, probably Konstanz, ca.1310; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. Heb. 75).		The Tripartite Mahzor is a fourteenth-century [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews Ashkenazi]] prayerbook divided into three parts. The first part is preserved in Budapest, in the [[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/index-en.html Kaufmann collection]] of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS A384). It contains prayers and piyyuts for the special Shabbats, Purim, Pesah (Passover), and the Song of Songs. The second part (London, British Library Add. Ms. 22413) contains prayers and piyyuts for Shavuot, the Book of Ruth, Sukkot and the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the third volume (Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Michael 619) there are prayers and piyyuts for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur. While the size of the codices is different, the size of the text areas and the style of the illuminations are the same. Therefore, the three volumes probably originally constituted a one- or two-volume codex, which began with Rosh ha-Shanah and ended with Shavuot. It may have been cut and divided into three parts some time later. None of the volumes has a colophon. The only name given is that of the scribe. He was a certain Hayyim. His name is written at the end of the commentary to Ruth (“חיים חזק”, vol.2, fol. 80v), and this word is decorated in the text in another page of the same volume (fol.103v). A certain scribe Hayyim (חיים סופר) also copied the so-called Schocken Bible (Southern Germany, c.1300; Jerusalem, Schocken Library, Ms.14840), and two close stylistic relatives of the Tripartite Mahzor: the Pentateuch of the Duke of Sussex (Southern Germany; London, British Library, Add. Ms 15282) and the Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Lake Constance Region, probably Konstanz, ca.1310; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. Heb. 75).
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