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Description of the manuscripts  
 
Description of the manuscripts  
This is a tripartite Jewish festival prayer book according to the German rite.
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This is a tripartite Jewish festival prayer book, with Hebrew term: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahzor Mahzor], according to the German rite.
 
It was produced in Southern Germany around 1320. Its scribe was a certain Hayyim.
 
It was produced in Southern Germany around 1320. Its scribe was a certain Hayyim.
  
 
[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-coll1.htm Volume I]
 
[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-coll1.htm Volume I]
Vellum, 3121,5cm
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Vellum, 31×21,5cm
 
It contains the special Sabbaths, Purim, Passover, with Song of Songs and commentary. There are fourteen initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers and eleven zodiac sign with the labors of the months in medals, and several border decorations. The folio 142 was cut, therefore the sign of the taleh, that is, Aries and labor of Nisan are missing.
 
It contains the special Sabbaths, Purim, Passover, with Song of Songs and commentary. There are fourteen initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers and eleven zodiac sign with the labors of the months in medals, and several border decorations. The folio 142 was cut, therefore the sign of the taleh, that is, Aries and labor of Nisan are missing.
  
 
Volume II
 
Volume II
Vellum, 31,522cm
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Vellum, 31,5×22cm
It contains the Savuot and the Succot with commentary. There are eight initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers and a zodiac cycle. The scribe’s signature is at the end of the Savuot (fol.80v).
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It contains the Shavuot and the Succot with commentary. There are eight initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers and a zodiac cycle. The scribe’s signature is at the end of the Shavuot (fol.80v).
  
 
Volume III
 
Volume III
Vellum, 3424,5cm
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Vellum, 34×24,5cm
 
It contains the first two days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. There are nine initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers.
 
It contains the first two days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. There are nine initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers.
  
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The Throne of Solomon, at the beginning of the Song of Songs
 
The Throne of Solomon, at the beginning of the Song of Songs
  
fol.197r  
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[http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms384/ms384-197r.htm fol.197r]
 
Crossing the Red Sea, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the seventh day of Pesah  
 
Crossing the Red Sea, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the seventh day of Pesah  
  
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fol.3v
 
fol.3v
 
Receiving the Law, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the first day of Shavuot
 
Receiving the Law, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the first day of Shavuot
fol.71v
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[http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=061286&imagex=153&searchnum=0003 fol.71r]
 
two scenes from the Book of Ruth, at the beginning of the Book of Ruth, the second day of Shavuot
 
two scenes from the Book of Ruth, at the beginning of the Book of Ruth, the second day of Shavuot
  
 
fol.85v
 
fol.85v
a bird headed figure stands next to the word, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the first day of Succoth
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a bird headed figure stands next to the word, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the first day of Succot
  
 
fol.139v
 
fol.139v
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Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1978.  
 
Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1978.  
 
106-7, Pl.33.
 
106-7, Pl.33.
and Ormos István. Kaufmann Dávid és gyűjteménye (David Kaufmann and his Collection). Különlenyomat az Örökségünk a múltunk. Gyűjtemények a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia könyvtárában. Budapest: MTA Könyvtára, 2001. 253, fig.13.
 
  
 
Vol.I, fol.143r
 
Vol.I, fol.143r
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Mellinkoff, Ruth. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval Germany. Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999. 88, fig.9.
 
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval Germany. Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999. 88, fig.9.
  
Vol. II, fol.71r
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Vol. II, [http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=061286&imagex=153&searchnum=0003 fol.71r]
 
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval Germany. Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999. 105, fig.302.
 
Mellinkoff, Ruth. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval Germany. Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999. 105, fig.302.
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk  (I could not attach the exact address)
 
  
 
==Documentary notes==
 
==Documentary notes==
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==References==
 
==References==
Buda,Zsófia. Animals Gazing at Women: Zoozephalic Figures in the Tripartite Mahzor, in: Animal Diversities. Ed. by Gerhard Jaritz and Alice Choyce (Medium Aevum Quoditianum Sonderband 16), Krems 2005, p. 136-166.
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Buda,Zsófia. Animals Gazing at Women: Zoocephalic Figures in the Tripartite Mahzor, in: Animal Diversities. Ed. by Gerhard Jaritz and Alice Choyce (Medium Aevum Quoditianum Sonderband 16), Krems 2005, p. 136-166.
  
  
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Narkiss, Bezalel. ”A Tripartite Illuminated Mahzor from a South German School of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts around 1300.” in Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies Papers, ? Vol. 2, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1968.  
 
Narkiss, Bezalel. ”A Tripartite Illuminated Mahzor from a South German School of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts around 1300.” in Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies Papers, ? Vol. 2, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1968.  
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Ormos István. Kaufmann Dávid és gyűjteménye (David Kaufmann and his Collection). Különlenyomat az Örökségünk a múltunk. Gyűjtemények a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia könyvtárában. Budapest: MTA Könyvtára, 2001.
  
 
Sharit, Shalev-Eyni. Ha-Mahzor ha-Meshullash (The Tripartite Mahzor). PhD Dissertation.  
 
Sharit, Shalev-Eyni. Ha-Mahzor ha-Meshullash (The Tripartite Mahzor). PhD Dissertation.  
  
  
contributor Buda, Zsófia, m04buz01@student.ceu.hu, Central European University
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Contributor: Buda, Zsófia, m04buz01@student.ceu.hu, Central European University

Latest revision as of 22:14, 27 January 2009

Tripartite Mahzor

Description of the manuscripts This is a tripartite Jewish festival prayer book, with Hebrew term: Mahzor, according to the German rite. It was produced in Southern Germany around 1320. Its scribe was a certain Hayyim.

Volume I Vellum, 31×21,5cm It contains the special Sabbaths, Purim, Passover, with Song of Songs and commentary. There are fourteen initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers and eleven zodiac sign with the labors of the months in medals, and several border decorations. The folio 142 was cut, therefore the sign of the taleh, that is, Aries and labor of Nisan are missing.

Volume II Vellum, 31,5×22cm It contains the Shavuot and the Succot with commentary. There are eight initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers and a zodiac cycle. The scribe’s signature is at the end of the Shavuot (fol.80v).

Volume III Vellum, 34×24,5cm It contains the first two days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. There are nine initial-word panels at the beginning of the prayers.


Animal-headed figures in the three volumes

Volume I

fol.143r Twins, zodiac cycle in the Prayer for Dew, Pesah

fol.183v The Throne of Solomon, at the beginning of the Song of Songs

fol.197r Crossing the Red Sea, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the seventh day of Pesah



Volume II fol.3v Receiving the Law, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the first day of Shavuot

fol.71r two scenes from the Book of Ruth, at the beginning of the Book of Ruth, the second day of Shavuot

fol.85v a bird headed figure stands next to the word, at the beginning of a piyyut belonging to the morning prayer of the first day of Succot

fol.139v Twins, zodiac cycle in the Prayer for Rain, Shemini Atzeret


The volume III does not contain zoocephalic figures.


Reproductions of the animal-headed images

Mahzor.jpg


Vol.I, fol.183v Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1978. 106-7, Pl.33.

Vol.I, fol.143r Ormos István. Kaufmann Dávid és gyűjteménye (David Kaufmann and his Collection). Különlenyomat az Örökségünk a múltunk. Gyűjtemények a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia könyvtárában. Budapest: MTA Könyvtára, 2001. 248, fig.9.

Vol.II, fol.3r Mellinkoff, Ruth. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval Germany. Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999. 88, fig.9.

Vol. II, fol.71r Mellinkoff, Ruth. Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval Germany. Jerusalem: Center of Jewish Art–The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999. 105, fig.302.

Documentary notes

Places of preserving:

Volume I: Budapest, MTA Kaufmann Collection, Ms A384

Volume II: London, British Library Add. Ms. 22413

Volume III: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Michael 619

References

Buda,Zsófia. Animals Gazing at Women: Zoocephalic Figures in the Tripartite Mahzor, in: Animal Diversities. Ed. by Gerhard Jaritz and Alice Choyce (Medium Aevum Quoditianum Sonderband 16), Krems 2005, p. 136-166.


Narkiss, Bezalel. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1978.

Narkiss, Bezalel. ”On the Zoocephalic Phenomenon in Medieval Ashkenazi Manuscripts” in: Norms and Variations in Art. Essays in Honour of Moshe Barasch, ? Jerusalem, 1983, 49-62.

Narkiss, Bezalel. ”A Tripartite Illuminated Mahzor from a South German School of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts around 1300.” in Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies Papers, ? Vol. 2, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1968.

Ormos István. Kaufmann Dávid és gyűjteménye (David Kaufmann and his Collection). Különlenyomat az Örökségünk a múltunk. Gyűjtemények a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia könyvtárában. Budapest: MTA Könyvtára, 2001.

Sharit, Shalev-Eyni. Ha-Mahzor ha-Meshullash (The Tripartite Mahzor). PhD Dissertation.


Contributor: Buda, Zsófia, m04buz01@student.ceu.hu, Central European University