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Or 10714
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- Or 10714
- Title:
- Samaritan calendars
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 6 folios (iii+6+xv)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10714 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Samaritan
- Scripts:
- Samaritan
- Start Date:
- 1907
- End Date:
- 1907
- Date Range:
- 1907
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10714
Samaritan calendars
Contents
A collection of Samaritan calendars.
Language(s): Samaritan
Physical Description
Composite paper codex of the 20th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Various type of paper.Extent: 6 folios (iii+6+xv)Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Foliated by M. Gaster.
Collation
1 quire: i14-1. Fol. 1 was detached from the quire and it is currently glued to front flyleaf (iii).
Fols. 5-6 and back flyleaves (iii)-(iv) are two bifolia of a different type of paper.
Front flyleaf (iii) is a printer's waste (headed paper of the English Zionist Federation).
Hand(s)
Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the 20th century.
Binding
Gaster's binding.
Spine: '858 חשבון.'
History
Origin: 1907 Shechem (West Bank)Provenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 858: inscribed with his name on fols. (iii)r, 1r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.
I
Contents
ff. 1v-4vTitle: LuaḥTitle: לוחCalendar of Rabi'a and Ramadan.
Four columns: column 1 for the day of the week; column 2 for the sun month; column 3 for the lunar month; column 4 for the hours for the beginnings of the Sabbaths and festivals.
Colophon:Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with chain and laid lines; with watermark: PIRIE'S OLD STYLEExtent: 4 foliosDimensions (leaf): 203 × 127 mm.Dimensions (written): 130 × 100 mm.Condition
Finger print on fol. 2r, smudged ink, stains.
Layout
Columns:4
Red and black ink.
Hand(s)
Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the 20th century.
The scribe was Ishaq ben Amram ben Salama, the High Priest.
Decoration
Additions:History
Origin: 1907 ; ShechemProvenance
II
Contents
ff. 5v-6vTitle: LuaḥTitle: לוחNine-month calendar.
Colophon:Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with no wire lines or watermarks.Extent: 2 foliosDimensions (leaf): 170 × 104 mm.Dimensions (written): 160 × 93 mm.Condition
Smudged ink.
Layout
Columns:4
Black ink.
Hand(s)
Samaritan script of the 20th century.
Different hand from that of Part I.
Decoration
Additions:History
Origin: 1907 ; ShechemProvenance
Additional Information
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
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10714 (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. 109.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. 65.Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 76, no. 802.Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 102, no. 65.Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 13.Funding of Cataloguing
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