The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project, is pleased to announce that a digitized version of the Library's 15th century manuscript mahzor of prayers according to the Italian (Roman) rite, written and illuminated by the famous scribe and artist Joel ben Simeon is now available for public access.
The mahzor contains standard prayers, liturgical hymns (piyyutim), customs, instructions and regulations for the whole year, including weekdays, Sabbaths, New Moon, major and minor holidays and fast days according to the Italian rite. The mahzor has many lovely decorations, all pen drawings in ink. It is rich in drawings of beasts and birds, imaginary and mythical creatures and symbols heraldic, religious and astrological. The Manuscript was donated to the Library by Mr. Henry Moskowitz in 1970 in memory of his parents, first wife, daughter and brother, and the rest of his family who perished in the Holocaust. The site includes also a digitized version of the monograph "The Moskowitz Mahzor of Joel Ben Simeon" by Shlomo Zucker (Jerusalem : Jewish National and University Library, 2005) 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 manuscript can be accessed at: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb1384/index.html (Description in Hebrew) or http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb1384/index_eng.html (Description in English) Elhanan Elhanan Adler Deputy Director for Information Technology National Library of Israel P.O.B. 39105, Jerusalem 91390, Israel Email: elha...@libnet.ac.il, elhan...@savion.huji.ac.il Tel.: 972-2-6585005, FAX: 972-2-6511771, Home tel.: 972-2-6515977 Mobile tel.: 972-54-6829657 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
