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The Amsterdam Machzor (also known as the Great Machzor) is a machzor (prayer book) for Jewish holidays and special sabbaths, which was presumably made around 1240 in Cologne. The elaborately designed manuscript is one of the oldest manuscripts of its kind in the German-speaking world. In 2017, it was acquired jointly by museums in Cologne and Amsterdam for four million euros and will be exhibited alternately in both cities in the future.

History
The Amsterdam Machzor (machzor =' cycle, cycle', pl. Machsorim) is one of the earliest illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of Ashkenazi origin. It can be assumed that it was used on high holidays in the medieval synagogue in Cologne.In 1424 the Jews were expelled from Cologne, and the synagogue became a Christian chapel; it was destroyed in the Second World War. How the precious manuscript arrived in Amsterdam is not known.