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Or 10431
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- Or 10431
- Title:
- Samaritan astronomical tables, liturgy and calendar
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 12 folios (iii+12+iii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10431 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Scripts:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1910
- Date Range:
- 1860-1910
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Or 10431
Samaritan astronomical tables, liturgy and calendar
Contents
Samaritan astronomical tables, liturgy and calendar.
Language(s): Samaritan Hebrew and Arabic
ff. 1r-12rTitle: לוחות בעברית ובערביתTitle: Luḥot be-ʻIvrit uve-ʻAravitContents: fol. 2: table of the months and table of conjunctions; fols. 3-4: retifications for sun and moon; fol. 5: table of hours and degrees; fols. 7-9: liturgical texts including prayers for washing hands, mouth, nose, ears and feet before prayers and grace before and after meals; fols. 1-12: astronomical tables.
Colophon: Fol. 5r.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with chain and laid lines; watermark: a crown/eagle fo the 1860s.Extent: 12 folios (iii+12+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 120 mm.Dimensions (written): × mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals. Foliation has changed, front flyleaf (iv) is part of the quire and once was foliated as 1. Blank leaf between fols. 9 and 10.
Collation
A single quire of 7 leaves. Catchwords are only on fols. 7v and 8v.
Condition
Layout
Columns:6
Various layouts, number of columns varies between 6 and 17; number of written lines varies between 13 and 32.
Ruling differs from folio to folio but is in pencil and is composite except for the liturgical section which is unruled.
Written in black ink.
Justification is poor, the text is often written to the extreme edges of folios.
Hand(s)
Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the early 20th century.
Joseph ben Israel ben Ishmael ben Abraham the Danfi and Abisha ben Pinhas.
Decoration
Additions:Binding
Dark green buckram binding, amy have been bound or rebound by Gaster. Six-hole, western sewing with western thread.
Spine: '1149'
History
Origin: 1860-1910 Shechem and LondonProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1149; 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: British Library, 1998).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10431 (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. 47, no. 519.Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 100, no. 63.Powels, Sylvia, Der Kalender der Samaritaner anhand des Kitāb hisāb as-sinīn und anderer Handschriften (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1977), p. 13.Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 11.Funding of Cataloguing
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