Artist
Unknown German
CultureGerman
Titles
- The Montefiore Mainz Mahzor
Datec. 1310-1320
MediumIlluminated manuscript on parchment; codex of 299 leaves, each ruled in ink, pricked, and written in black and red ink in Ashkenazi script
DimensionsClosed: 4 × 16 × 12 in. (10.2 × 40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund. Restoration supported with generous contributions from the TEFAF Museum Restoration fund; Joan Morgenstern; and Helaine and David Lane and Family
Object number2018.124
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
111 Herzstein Gallery
On view
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1 Noted by the marginal annotations in Italian added to fol. 178r with words such as “molto ma…”, “…con questo lo faezo (?), fol. 178r
2 He was an Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete with his notes on fols. 286r-287r and a printed blue-edged paper spine-label inscribed “43” is perhaps his notation.
3He was a Polish scholar and bibliophile, inscribed with the collector’s “No .238” on the first flyleaf, by 1865.
4It was acquired with 411 other manuscripts from the Halberstam collection between 1888 when Moses Gastor became Principal of the College and 1899 when the majority of the College’s manuscripts were transferred on deposit to the Jews’ College, London and where they remained for more than a century.
5 The College was founded in 1869 by Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) and considered “the most famous English Jew of his time, probably of all time”, The festival prayer book was catalogued by Hirschfeld shortly after their arrival in London. The Jews’ College book label printed in capitals “Montefiore / MS. [‘206’ inserted] Ha[lberstam] No. “238’ inserted also added in pencil to an old paper title-piece.
Exhibition History"New Light on Old Masters: European Art from Houston Collections," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2, 2021–January 23, 2022
"The European Fine Art Fair," Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, May 5–May 10, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Labels:
Upper spine: collectors label
Upper spine: Paper fragments with hand written title
Mid spine: Library label
Interior front cover, paper label: MONTEFIORE / MS. / 206 / HA NO. 238 / LIBRARY
Inscription: Inscribed in ink, underlined, front loose endpaper, upper center: [illegible] 238
Loose card between front endpapers
Upper spine: collectors label
Upper spine: Paper fragments with hand written title
Mid spine: Library label
Interior front cover, paper label: MONTEFIORE / MS. / 206 / HA NO. 238 / LIBRARY
Inscription: Inscribed in ink, underlined, front loose endpaper, upper center: [illegible] 238
Loose card between front endpapers
Watermark, front loose endpaper, bottom: CN; top: [3 crescent moons with a face]
Watermark, back loose endpaper, top: [3 crescent moons with a face]
Watermark, back loose endpaper, top: [3 crescent moons with a face]
Catalogue raisonnénone
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