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Add MS 19956

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Add MS 19956
Title:
The Arabic book of Joshua
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
96 folios (iv+96+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1502
End Date:
1502
Date Range:
1502
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Adb al-Latif ibn Yaqub ibn Sadaqa ibn Safi, Romah family
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19956

The Arabic book of Joshua

Contents

Samaritan chronicle including the history of the Israelits from Joshua to Alexander the Great.

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1r-95v
Author:
Author:
Title: Sefer Yehoshuaʻ: nusaḥ Shomroni
Title: ספר יהושע :נוסח שומרוני

Since Stenhouse has shown that the current order of chapters in the Book of Joshua is governed by a misplacement of quires in one of the source MSS, this text can be shown to be a calque of the Leiden MS, and both have followed the same source.

Marginal corrections.

Colophon: Fol. 95v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper, thick, brownish, 'cartonage' without wire lines and watermark.
Extent: 96 folios (iv+96+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 173 × 129 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. A complete manuscript with some more recent additions: ff. 1-9, 26-27, 33, 54, and 96.

Collation

Ruling is composite done by stylus for a fixed, thirteen lines per folio.

Quire structure is of regular quinternions without signatures but with catchwords on each verso.

Ink is black, changing shades where the later pages were added.

Justification is complete.

Condition

The corners are rounded so the manuscript was probably untrimmed in restoration.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 13

Black ink was used for the text, red ink for the Samaritan vocalisation.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts.

The scribe was Adb al-Latif ibn Yaqub ibn Sadaqa ibn Safi, Romah family.

Decoration

Additions:

Fol. 96 is a late 17th-early 18th century divorce document copied by Muslim ibn Murjan.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled and gold-blocked.

Spine: 'Liber Joshuae. Arab. Sam. Brit. Mus. Jure emptionis. 19956.'

History

Origin: 1502 Written in Egypt and transferred to Shechem?

Provenance and Acquisition

1854-09-01

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased at Jerusalem and received from M. J. Finn 1 Sept. 1854.'

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=Add_MS_19956 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, G. et al. (eds.)Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p 92.
    Rieu, Charles,Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices Arabicos amplectens (Londini: Impensis curatorum Musei Britannici, 1838-1871), v.2, p. 520, no. 1142.
    Crown, Alan David. A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 16.

Funding of Cataloguing

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