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Or 12379 B

Record Id:
032-003317022
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032-003317022
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Or 12379 B
Title:
Phylactery
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 sheet
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12379_B (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1340
End Date:
1364
Date Range:
1340-1364
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abisha ben Pinhas ben Joseph ben Ozzi ben Pinhas ben Eleazar ben Netanel ben Eleazar
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12379 B

Phylactery

Contents

Samaritan phylactery fragment

Language(s): Samaritan

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

This fragment and Or 12379 A are probably part of the same document, with B being the missing columns of A, since the text round the outer rim of A carries on into B. The phylactery is incomplete, with damage to the left side.

The words 'Samarit. Shem', the latter being an abbreviation for Shem hamitfaresh, the ineffable name of God, are to be found in Gaster's Handlist (p.145). The text in fact appears to have been part of a phylactery now in two parts: Or 12379 A and 12379 B.

Or 12379A starts with a qataf of part of Deuteronomy 32. This is followed by Exodus 14:22-24. Or 12379 B continues the text found in Or 12379 A along its outer rim with a fragmentary text from Ex. 14:21.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Parchment leaf of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 355 × 440 mm.
Foliation:

1 folio

Collation

Condition

Fragmentary, the missing right side is probably identical with Or 12379 A.

Stains, holes, folding lines.

Layout

Columns:4

A single parchment sheet within a glass frame.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 14th century.

The scribe appears to be Abisha ben Pinhas ben Joseph ben Ozzi ben Pinhas ben Eleazar ben Netanel ben Eleazar, priestly family, Shechem, 1321-1364 (see also, Or 2685, Or 2686, Or 1442, Or 10354).

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

In glass frame.

History

Origin: 1340-1364 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1100: inscribed with his name; 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_12379_B (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. 145.
    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.89 (incorrectly indicated as being in the John Rylands Library).
    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. 1097.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 8.

Bibliography

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