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- Title:
- Molad Mosheh
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 72 folios (ii+72+v)
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- Languages:
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Samaritan - Scripts:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Start Date:
- 1752
- End Date:
- 1782
- Date Range:
- 1752-1782
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
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Add MS 19021
Molad Mosheh
Contents
Samaritan midrash and poetical texts.
Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan
ff. 1r-39rLanguage(s): ArabicTitle: Molad Mosheh : be-ʻIvrit uve-ʻArvitTitle: מולד משה : בעברית ובערביתSamaritan midrash about the birth of Moses.
Fol. 39r: a prayer in Arabic.
Colophon: Fol. 37v. It is enclosed in an ornamental frame which has two rosettes framing the last two lines.ff. 40v-72vLanguage(s): Samaritan, ArabicTitle: PoemsVarious poems: ff. 40v-41v: a poem about Moses, written in 1121 AH; ff. 42r-46c: poetry written in 1154 AH; ff. 47r-55v: poetry written in 1155 AH; ff. 56-57: poems of Muslim ibn Murjan; ff. 58-59: a poem of Ibrahim of 1159 AH; ff. 60-66v: poetry by Salama ibn Yaqub of 1162 AH.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper, glossy tré-lune mills with chain and laid lines; watermarks (partially visible: crescents and the letters TR).Extent: 72 folios (ii+72+v)Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 120 mm.Dimensions (written): 120 × 85 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals. ff. 71v and 72r are blank and there are two blank folios between them.
Collation
Quire structure cannot be determined because the MS was side-sewn during restoration.
Catchwords are vectored diagonally on each verso.
Condition
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 20
Black ink was used for the text, red ink for the Samaritan vocalisation.
Hand(s)
Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script, both of the 18th century.
The scribe was Salama ben Jacob ben Murjan, the Danfi.
Decoration
Additions:Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled and gold-blocked.
Spine: 'Samaritan Encomia of Moses, etc. Arab. Brit. Mus. Add Or. 19021.'
History
Origin: 1752-1782 ff. 1r-38v: 1752 (1166 AH), rest of the MS: 1782(?) West Bank (Shechem)Provenance and Acquisition
1852-09-01
James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Purchased of John (sic!) Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem. 1 Sept. 1852'.
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=Add_MS_19021 (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 91.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. 519, no. 1141.Text published: Miller, Selig. 'The Samaritan Molad Mosheh: Samaritan and Arabic Texts edited abd translated with Introduction and Notes' (Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1949). [Reprinted New York, Philosophical Library, 1949].Translation published: Gaster, Moses. 'Molad Mosheh: The Samaritan Legend of the Birth of Moses',The Quest21 (1930): 358-372.Leitner, M. 'Die samaritanischen Legenden Mosis. Aus der arabischen Handschrift des Britischen Museums übersetzt',Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift für Englische Theologische Forschung4 (1868): pp. 185.Crown, Alan David,A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 15.Bibliography
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