Machzor – Prayers for Yom ha-Kippurim

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, U.64230-64231

Remarks by the Editor

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General Information

Title Machzor – Prayers for Yom ha-Kippurim
Shelfmarks U.64230-64231
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe (Ashkenazi)
Date of Origin 1401-1500
Script, Hands

One hand, calligraphic square Askenazi, with complete Tiberian vocalisation. 

General Remarks

Several justification practices are in place in this manuscript, the most common of which are the blank spaces. Anticipation of the first letters in the first word on the next line is also used occasionally, as is the elongation of specific letters (aleph, he, tav).

Original Condition

Page Height 360 – 370 mm
Page Width 246 – 260 mm
Height of Written Area 230 – 260 mm
Width of Written Area 126 – 143 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 126 – 143 mm
Number of Lines 23 – 26
Line Height 10 mm
Ruling drypoint (invisible)
Collation

This fragment and the wrapper of Cluj, BAR, U.61741 may have been extracted from the same original manuscript.

Current Condition

Extent top 1/2 of the original leaf
Dimensions 177 x 246 mm
More about the Current Condition

Perfectly legible. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Hebrew
    • Title Machzor - prayers for Yom ha-Kippurim
    • Content Description

      The end of ברכת קדושת היום and the beginning of ברכת עבודה

      Inc.:

      בתורתך ושבעינו מטובך ושמחינו בישועתיך וטהר לבינו לעוברך באמת

      Expl.:

      ושם נעבדך ביראה כימי עולם ובשנים

    • U_64230_31
    • Glosses and Additions Massorah Parva
    • Remarks

      In the middle of the fragment, ברכת עבודה - Prayer for the Blessing of the Work, רצה יי אלהינו פעמך ישראל, is signalled in a title with larger letters (Aleph = 12 x 10 mm).

History

Origin

Central European (German Ashkenazi). 

Provenance

The host book had belonged to "Laurentius Dalnaki", who signed his name on the title page. Dálnoki Nagy Lőrinc (1614-1661) was a teacher at the Unitarian College in Cluj in the 1630s and 1640s.

Persons and Institutions Unitarian College, Cluj, s. XVII-XX. "Ecclesiae Unitarianae Claudiopolitanae" (frontispiece of U.64230); former shelfmarks "R.56" (title page), B.I.23 (front flyleaf).

Host Volume

Title Nicolai Taurelli In Inclyta Norimbergensium Academia Physicae Et Medicinae professoris acutissimi. Kosmologia. Hoc est Physicarum [et] Metaphysicarum Discussionum: De Mundo. Libri II. : Adversus Franciscum Piccolomineum, philosophum celeberrimum, aliosq[ue] Peripateticos (USTC 2091685)
Date of Origin/Publication 1603
Place of Origin/Publication Amberg
Shelfmark U.64230
Persons Taurellus, Nicolaus, 1547-1606, author

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