Machsor Lipsiae
The Machsor Lipsiae (Leipzig Machsor) is the most magnificent surviving example of a medieval Machsor , a collection of prayers in Hebrew for the seven special feast days of the Jewish year.
The two-volume parchment codex comprises 404 sheets and has a sheet size of 49 by 36 centimeters. Numerous illuminations and decorations with gold leaf decorate the Machsor. The design of the font is also varied and works with different sizes and ink colors.
Little is known about the genesis of the work, especially since the last pages are missing, on which the relevant information was usually given. Presumably the codex was made in a Christian workshop. The analysis of the illumination suggests a production around 1310 or 1320 in the Lake Constance or Upper Rhine region. The earliest exact location can be combined with an owner entry from 1553, which indicates the place of residence of Worms . The manuscript came to Poland at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century . During this time, the codices were also newly bound. Another new binding took place in the late 17th or early 18th century, but already in the Thuringian region. In 1746 the Leipzig University Library bought the volumes.
expenditure
- Machsor Lipsiae. 68 Facs.-plate. d. medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscript from d. Stock d. Leipzig University Library. Ed. Elias Katz. Dausien, Hanau / Main [1964?]. - 68 sheets: numerous Ill. (Color) & text volume (112, 12 pp.).
- The song of the songs of Shelomo. [From d. Hebrew transl., re-poised u. ed. by Stefan Schreiner]. - 2nd edition. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig / Weimar 1985. 108 pp.: Ill .; (Hebrew, German).
- Machsor Lipsiae. Virtual library. German Historical Museum - Leipzig University Library. 2 CD-ROM.
literature
- Katrin Kogman-Appel : A mahzor from Worms. Art and religion in a medieval Jewish community. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-674-06454-6 .