The reunited Esslingen Mahzor In the winter of 1290, Kalonymos ben Judah of Esslingen (near Stuttgart in North Württemberg) completed his only recorded professional accomplishment, the writing and decorating of a so-called ‘winter Mahzor’ for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The second half of this Esslingen Mahzor has long been well known in the scholarly world. In its colophon the scribe makes explicit mention of the place and date in which the manuscript was produced (28 Tevet 5050/12 January 1290). The codex, housed in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, one of the Special Collections of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (Hs. Ros. 609), is therefore the earliest recorded dated and localized Hebrew manuscript written in Germany. For many years, the first part of the Esslingen Mahzor appeared to have been lost. In the year 1990, Dr. Evelyn M. Cohen identified a manuscript in the collection of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (JTS MS 9344) as the missing first part of the Rosenthaliana volume. The texts are complementary and most of the decoration was done by the same artist. Later changes to the manuscript are identical: the same characteristic patch- and pastework occurs in both manuscripts, as do the extensive marginal annotations so typical of the Mahzor. Separated at some unknown time in the past, the original volume is now re-united electronically for the first time.
http://esslingenmahzor.org/
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