❧ Description
The oldest of the three Algiers witnesses in the MMJMM catalogue: a Maḥzor according to the rite of Algiers, copied in 1456 on 206 leaves of vellum, in vocalized rabbinic Sephardic script. Content structurally parallel to Neubauer no. 1086, with variants specific to the rite of Algiers. Colophon: “copy made by Mord'khai ben Eliyyahu 'Ali [name partially effaced], completed on 20 Tammuz 5216 = 1456.” Sale noted in 1468 in a place transcribed BTNB by Neubauer (probably Bône/Annaba).
Provenance: 1 Copied by Mord'khai ben Eliyyahu 'Ali, completed in 1456 (colophon) 2 Sold in 1468 at [BTNB, possibly Bône/Annaba] 3 Witnesses: Yosef Yaqov and Avram Yaqov ha-Levi 4 Heimann Joseph Michael collection (1792–1846), Hamburg 5 Bodleian Library, 1848
Codicological notice — origin Algiers, Regency of Algiers, Algeria; copyist: Mord'khai ben Eliyyahu 'Ali; script: Sephardic; folios: 206 folios (vellum); dimensions: quarto; early catalogues: Neubauer Catalogue 1886 · 1087; editorial status: Partial edition available.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-mich-318; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).
