The word “Mahzor,” familiar to most Jews as the term used for the prayer book for the High Holidays, means “cycle.” It can therefore be used to describe a book containing any liturgical cycle. Sometimes the term was also used to describe a text created in codex = book form, as opposed to a traditional Jewish scroll.  

Corfu is an island off the west coast of Greece, near the narrow passage between the Adriatic and Ionian seas. Corfu had a small but vibrant Jewish community from the time of Venetian hegemony (14th century) until the Holocaust. In its time, it served as a refuge for Sephardic Jewish refugees. 

This page is one of several illustrations of biblical scenes from the Exodus cycle. You can see here a group of Jews enjoying a meal in a sukkah—a booth that was the temporary dwelling in the desert. Note the dress of those represented; their garments are unmistakably in the fashion of 18th century Greece.