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Title:
Memar Marḳeh
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Extent:
286 folios (i+286+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Samaritan
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Samaritan
Start Date:
1738
End Date:
1738
Date Range:
1738
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Names:
Jacob ben Murjan ben Abraham ben Ishmael the Danfi
Shelah ben Abraham ben Salama ben Murjan ben Muslim
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Or 7923

Memar Marḳeh

Contents

Samaritan commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Samaritan Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic.

ff. 1v-284v
Author:
Author:
Title: Memar Marḳeh
Title: מימר מרקה

In Aramaic entitled: פליאתה למרקה.

Fols. 1-9 have a table of contents.

Right column: Aramaic, left column: Arabic, both in Samaritan script.

Marginal notes in Arabic and Samaritan script.

Colophon: Fols. 99v and 216v in Samaritan characters, and on 284v in Arabic. Colophon on fol. 284v gives the scribe and the date. A poetical colophon by the brother of the priest, Isaac is on fol. 285r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; tre-lune watermarks; front flyleaf has different watermark: FF. Palazzuoli (?).
Extent: 286 folios (i+286+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 162 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

The folios are numbered in pencil and the pages are numbered in Arabic from fol. 10r.

Collation

28 quires: i-v10, vi-vii8, viiixxvii-10, xxviii10-1.

Catchwords on each verso, end of each column, signature in top right corner with Samaritan characters and Arabic numbers (written by the same hand).

First quire containing the table of content is different paper, perhaps added later.

Eight-hole sewing with no kettle stiches and no head or tail bands.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion in places (fol. 173 very fragile).

Stains, smudged ink in places.

Fingerprint on fol. 87v.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruling is by stylus and is for the justification lines only.

Justification is by compression and internal separation.

Corrections include erasure, overwriting and the supply of replacement or new matter between lines and in the margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the 18th century.

The scribe was Jacob ben Murjan ben Abraham ben Ishmael the Danfi.

Fols. 286r-286v were written by Shelah ben Abraham ben Salama ben Murjan ben Muslim.

Decoration

Geometrically embellished band under the colophons on fol. 99v and 216v.

Additions:

Folio 286 was written in 1847 (1264 AH).

Binding

Full leather oriental binding with fore edge flap, blind-tooled with strawberry, goat's hoof and small elongated 'S' motifs.

Spine: 'Marḳa. Commentary on Pentateuch. Aramaic&Arab.Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 7923.'

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (ii)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (ii)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iii)r.

History

Origin: 1738 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Reading notes on fol. 10r.

Bought of Isaac Ha-Kohen. October 11, 1913: inscribed on back flyleaf verso.

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_7923 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Ben-Hayyim, Z.Tibat Marqe: A Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1988), his MS ל.
    Ben-Hayyim, Z. 'Towards a New Edition of Tibat Marqe', inEtudes samaritaines Pentateuque et Targum exégèse et philologie, chroniques: Table ronde internationale "Les manuscrits Samaritains. Problemes et methodes" : Papers. (Retting calls the MS Or 7293!)., ed. Jean-Pierre Rothschild and Guy Dominique Sixdenier (Paris : Peeters, 1988), pp. 161-179.
    Rettig, David. Memar Marqah
    McDonald, John, 'Memar Marqah: the Teaching of Marqah',Beiheft, Zeitschrift für die Altestamentliche Wissenschaft83 (1963): his MS D1; v. 1, pp. xxix.
    Crown, Alan David,A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 20.

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