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Or 12375 H

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032-003317019
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Or 12375 H
Title:
Fragment of a phylactery
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
A single sheet of parchment.
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abisha ben Pinhas ben Joseph ben Ozzi
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 12375 H

Fragment of a phylactery

Contents

Phyactery

Language(s): Samaritan

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

Colophon:

Physical Description

A single sheet of parchment.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: A single sheet of parchment.
Dimensions (leaf): 490 × 165 mm.
Foliation:

Collation

Condition

Fragmentary.

Glued onto a paper sheet.

Folding lines, stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:2

Written lines: 35

No dots are used to divide the words, misleading Gaster as to its age.

Still traces of pricking for the ruling.

The horizontal lines are 4mm apart.

Writing on the flesh side of the parchment in a fine black ink.

Justification is by the final separation of single letters.

Gaster appears to have ignored the ruling of the second column which allows the word קדש to be repeated as a form of tashqil, down the sheet.

Two columns remaining of an original five through seven (Gaster says four) columns with 35 lines per column.

Hand(s)

A cursive hand of the 14th century, apparently that of the High Priest.

Scribe was almost certainly Abisha ben Pinhas ben Joseph ben Ozzi ca. 1340-1364. His han is clearly identifiable.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Housed in a folder with 9 other sheets.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1103; 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_H (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Gaster, M., 'Samaritan Phylacteries and Amulets'. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1915-1917) [Reprinted in Studies and texts in folklore, magic, mediaeval romance, Hebrew apocrypha and Samaritan archaeology vol.1, pp. 399-461].
    Gaster, M. 'A Samaritan MS. of the Second of Third Century: a Palaeographic Study', Journal of Royal Asiatic Society (1918): 63-83.
    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.90.
    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. 111, no. 77.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 7.

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