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Or 12375 G

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032-003317018
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Or 12375 G
Title:
Fragments of phylacteries
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
6 fragments of various sizes on a single sheet
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1400-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Salama ben Tabya
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Or 12375 G

Fragments of phylacteries

Contents

Fragments of five phylacteries on a single sheet.

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-1v
Author:
Author:
Title: Tefilin
Title: תפילין

Part A (1117A) has two columns which adjoin and belong to each other.

Part B (1117B) is a series of four separate fragments of phylacteries, described by M. Gaster (Handlist) as Shem hamitfaresh, and by Shunnar (Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften) as 'Phylacteries'.

Colophon:

Physical Description

6 paper fragments of various sizes on a single paper sheet.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 6 fragments of various sizes on a single sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 610 × 400 mm.
Foliation:

Collation

Condition

Paper in fragile condition.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Samaritan scripts.

Part A: majuscule script; anonymous.

Part B: there is a name in this part: Joseph ben Ab [Zehuta?]h, but certainly in 19th-century script. Joseph's career spans the period 1765-1829. One of the hands in Part B is that of Salama ben Tabya, the priest, the scribe of Add MS 19695. His known career spans the years 1783-1848.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Housed in a folder with 9 other sheets.

History

Origin: 1400-1899 Part A: 15th century?; Part B: 19th century Part B: Shechem?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1117A/B; 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12375_G (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    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.97.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 105, no. 1093.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 110, no. 76.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 6.

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