The Bibliotheca Rosentaliana, or Hebrew and Jewish Department of the Amsterdam University library, has purchased the medieval manuscript of the Machzor, The Machzor is a festival prayerbook written by Kalonymos Ben Yehuda in Swabia on the Neckar River. It is said to have been completed in 1290. The manuscript, which contains only the second part of the annual festival prayers, was purchased for a reported 500,000 Guilders (about $200,000). Several American and European libraries had formerly refused to purchase the manuscript in view of its high price.
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