Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??


Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Or 10321

Record Id:
032-003317005
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003317005
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100033807779.0x000007
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10321
Title:
Samaritan calendar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Tree:
[{ "id" : "032-003317005", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 10321: Samaritan calendar" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003317005
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-003317005
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
7 folios (iii+7+v)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10321 (digital images currently unavailable)
Thumbnail:
Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1910
End Date:
1910
Date Range:
1910
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10321

Samaritan calendar

Contents

Samaritan calendar for 1910/1911

Language(s): Samaritan Hebrew

ff. 1v-7r
Title: לוח שומרוני לשנת 1910
Title: Luaḥ shomroni li-shenat 1910

Gaster says, 'Kalendar; (!) most calligraphically written. Names of portions etc; made for me by High Priest for year 1910 or 1911. Quite unique.'

The calendar is for the months Sha'ban (1328 AH)-Rajab (1329 AH).

The text is in five columns: the first gives the days of the week, the second the dates in the month, the third the Julian calendar correspondences, the fourth the Gregorian calendar, and the fifth column is the festival readings.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; watermark: 'WISCONSIN BOND'.
Extent: 7 folios (iii+7+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 145 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): × mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. The manuscript has a double numbering system: the page numbers have been erased and replaced by folio numbers.

Collation

A single quire of 10 leaves sewn in four-hole style (quire includes 1 unfoliated leaf at the beginning a 2 unfoliated blank leaves at the end).

Condition

Red ink has been smudged.

Layout

Columns:5

Ink of the text is black and all ruling is in red.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the early 20th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Buckram binding.

Spine: '1150 Kalender.'

History

Origin: 1910 Nablus

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1150; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

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).

Availability

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10321 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 149.
    Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p.94.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 37, no. 412.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 100, no. 62.
    Powels, Sylvia, Der Kalender der Samaritaner anhand des Kitāb hisāb as-sinīn und anderer Handschriften (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1977), p. 12.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 10.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL