Maḥzor de Fès pour Roch Hashana et Yom Kippour

Maḥzor for the Yamim Noraim according to the minhag of Fez, recorded by Joseph Luzzatto as one of the twelve “most precious” numbers in the 1868 sale catalogue. The volume contains 327 piyyutim, including poems attributed to Yehuda Halevi, Abraham ibn Ezra and Abraham Hazak, with an index drawn up by Samuel David Luzzatto. Described as UNPUBLISHED by SDL in 1868. Provenance: 1 Jewish community of Fez, 16th–18th century 2 Acquisition by Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua, before 1865 3 Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue, 1868, no. 50 4 Isaia Luzzatto sale to the Bodleian Library, 1869–1870 Codicological notice — origin Fez, Morocco; script: Maghrebi; folios: 183 folios; dimensions: quarto; early catalogues: Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue 1868 · no. 50; editorial status: Unpublished. — Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-mahzor-fez-luzzatto-50; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Sources & resources

• Luzzatto, Joseph. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de S. D. Luzzatto, Padoue, 1868, Section I, n° 50.
• Neubauer, Adolf. Catalogue, Oxford, 1886 (acquisitions Luzzatto 1869-70).
• Fiche MMJMM : https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-mahzor-fez-luzzatto-50