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Or 3394

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Or 3394
Title:
History of the Patriarchs
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
147 folios (i+147+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Meshalmah ben Murjan ben Ibrahim
Murjan ben Ibrahim
Ya'kub al Shalabi
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Or 3394

History of the Patriarchs

Contents

History of the Patriachs (abbreviated version of the Asatir?)

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1r-147v
Author:
Author:
Title: Hisṭoryah shel ha-avot u-Mosheh
Title: היסטוריה של האבות ומשה

Margoliouth says 'History of the Patriarchs and of Moses in Arabic with quotations from the Samaritan Pentateuch.'

The text appears to be a version of the Asatir. Chapter 2 (starts fol. 5r) holds the dreams of Adam and Chapter 3 (starts fol. 12r) is on Noah.

Marginal notes include the supplying of whole paragraphs in the margin.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper, with chain and laid lines, and watermarks: cathedral spire and crucifix, with countermark CS. The same watermark is found in Or 10544 of 1736 written by the father, Murjan ben Ibrahim.
Extent: 147 folios (i+147+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 147 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. Parallel pagination in Arabic.

Collation

Side-sewn so the quires are indeterminable in size.

No signatures.

Condition

Some folios are on guards.

Stains, slight water damage.

Some leaves have been fixed, patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 15

The ruling would appear to result from the use of a 15-line mastara.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts.

The scribe was either Meshalmah ben Murjan ben Ibrahim (1699-1738), or his father, Murjan ben Ibrahim, who also wrote into the early 18th century. Their hands are difficult to separate.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'History of the Patriarchs. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 3394.'

History

Origin: ; Nablus?

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought of Ya'kub al Shalabi 26 Nov. 1886: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Crown, Alan David: A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_3394 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, G. et al. (eds.)Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p 94.
    Gaster, M.,The Asatir; the Samaritan Book of the Secret of Moses (London: Oriental Translation Fund, NS vol. 26, 1927).
    Ben-Hayyim, Z., 'The Asatir with Translation and Commentary' [Hebrew]Tarbiz14&15 (1943).
    Crown, Alan David,A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 19.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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