“Catalonia Mahzor” Digitized by the JNUL/NLI
From H-Judaic:
The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization
Project, is pleased to announce that a digitized version of the Library’s
manuscript “Catalonia Mahzor” is now available for public access.
The “Catalona Mahzor” is a Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according
to the Spanish Catalonian Rite. It is dated approximately 1280.
The text includes liturgical hymns by Spanish Jewish poets. Most of the
piyyutim conform to the rites of prayer that have been preserved by Jewish
communities which originated in the city of Barcelona or the region of
Catalonia.
The manuscript is ornamented with micrographic drawings and incipit panels.
The manuscript is presented in the DjVu format which provides high quality,
magnifiable images compressed into relatively small files for easy
downloading. In order to view DjVu images it is necessary to download and
install (once) a special free viewer program.
The Mahzor Catalonia can be accessed at:
here (Description in Hebrew)
or here (Description in
English).