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Or 7926

Record Id:
032-003317003
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7926
Title:
Le-zikhron Mosheh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
135 folios (i+135+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_7926 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Arabic
Hebrew
Start Date:
1912
End Date:
1913
Date Range:
1912-1913
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Tahor ben Jacob ben Ishmael ben Abraham Sarawi ben Ishmael ben Abraham, the Danfi.
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Or 7926

Le-zikhron Mosheh

Contents

Samaritan commemoration of Moses and various other liturgical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew, Arabic, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1v-135r
Author:
Author:
Title: Le-zikhron Mosheh.
Title: לזכרון משה

A commemoration of Moses.

Bilinugal Samaritan Hebrew and Arabic written in two columns.

Also includes also liturgical works a lot of which is often described as Sefer ha-Sameaḥ or Memar Ashamah or Kurras al-Farih (for detailed description of the contents see, Crown,Catalogue of Samaritan Manuscripts)

Colophon: Various colophons mark stages in completing the MS from 1912 to its finished form on 6 January 1913.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tré-lune watermarks, countermarked SBS.
Extent: 135 folios (i+135+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 330 × 213 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Foliated in pencil after acquistion.

Collation

Collation is indeterminable (too tight binding). Catchwords in each verso.

Condition

Smudged ink in places.

Layout

Columns:2

Various page layouts. Fols. 1v-90r and 134v-135r are in two columns, fols. 91v-134r are in 1-2 columns.

Red and black ink.

Fols. 91v-134r: text is framed in a red border.

The ruling is mixed in type including composite forms, with horizontal lines and justification margins, as well as folios with no horizontal ruling but which are framed to provide a text boundary.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the 20th century.

The scribe was Tahor ben Jacob ben Ishmael ben Abraham Sarawi ben Ishmael ben Abraham, the Danfi.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding, half-bound, black.

Spine: 'Samaritan ritual in commemoration of Moses. Hebrew, Brit. Mus. Or. 7926.'

History

Origin: 1912-1913 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Birth note on fol. 36r.

1913-10-11

Bought of Isaac ha-Kohen on 11 October 1913; inscribed on back flyleaf (iii)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_7926 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    British Museum Oriental Manuscripts Accessions Register (unpublished), p. 281.
    Crown, Alan David,A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 21.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL