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Or 10567

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Or 10567
Title:
Samaritan calendar
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
13 folios (ii+13+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1909
End Date:
1909
Date Range:
1909
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10567

Samaritan calendar

Contents

Samaritan calendar for the months of Sha'ban-Rajab = Av-Elul

Language(s): Samaritan Hebrew and Arabic

ff. 1r-13r
Title: לוח לחדשים אב-אלול
Title: Luaḥ la-ḥodashim Av-Elul

Date and authorship is stated in the title on fol. 1r.

According to Gaster catalogue this manuscript contained the book of Joshua, but currently it only includes the calendar.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper has chain and laid lines; watermark: tré-lune with three star inserts marked SM. Counter-marked: COLONIAL YOST.
Extent: 13 folios (ii+13+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 183 × 116 mm.
Dimensions (written): 131 × 78 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

A single quire of 7 leaves.

Condition

Layout

Columns:6

Ruling is done with black ink, text is written in black ink only.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the early 20th century.

Ab Hasda ben Jacob ben Aaron the priest.

Binding

Dark green buckram binding; the sewing style is unusual since there were no pre-existing holes but the needle is used to produce a series of overlaping loops.

History

Origin: 1909 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 888: inscribed with his name on flyleaf (ii)r; 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).

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Surrogates

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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. 111-112.
    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.69.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 59, no. 655.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 101, no. 64.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 12.

Funding of Cataloguing

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