Paris, BnF MS. Hébreu 1489 (10)

Palestinian Mahzor-Genizah du Caire

Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris, France)

Codex

Parchment

Mixed ink (iron-gall + carbon)

Calamus

There is ruling

Hard point

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

32

32

On the flesh side.

283

198

Upper margin : 28 mm, Lower margin : 35 mm, Inner margin: 30 mm, Outer margin: 30 mm

11th Century CE

c. 1000

Egypt

Orient

Hebrew

Liturgy

It is an outer bifolio: last folio and a small inner corner of the first folio of the quire, bearing the signature ה (the fifth quire of the codex). It is a fragment of a Mahzor containing piyyutim of the Palestinian rite, whose many leaves have been identified across various Cairo Genizah collections.

Sporadic

Tiberian

Only one word in the fragment, on the verso (hair side), l. 27 contains a vowel (qamats): רָצף

https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc11361c/ca109 (Date accessed: 2025-08-27)

M. Rand, « Was Mahzor Eretz Israel – A Geniza Codex Indeed Used in Eretz Israel? New Fragments of the Codex and their Contribution to an Understanding of the Nature of its Liturgical Rite » (Hebrew), Tarbiz 82 (2014), p.538 (pp. 529-548).
J. Yahalom, Mahzor Erets Israel: the Genizah Codex (Hebrew), Jerusalem, 1987.
J. Yahalom, "‘Eretz-Israel Mahzorim in the Genizah: From Paleography to Liturgy",in B.
Outhwaite and S. Bhayro (eds.), ‘From a Sacred Source’: Genizah Studies in Honour of Professor Stefan
.C. Reif, Leiden and Boston 2010, pp. 357–375.