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Add MS 19005
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- Add MS 19005
- Title:
- Samaritan liturgy for Passover
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 75 folios (iii+75+iv)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Scripts:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Start Date:
- 1748
- End Date:
- 1748
- Date Range:
- 1748
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 19005
Samaritan liturgy for Passover
Contents
Samaritan liturgy for Passover.
Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic
ff. 6r-74vTitle: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-FesaḥTitle: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסחMain text starts on fol. 6r: החלק השלישי אמנות מועד חג המצות הברכות הטובות בהרגריזים. This indicates that this is the third volume of a set.
Colophon: Colophons on ff. 16v and 74v in Arabic.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: tre-lune and countermarked with a cross and spires, as in Nikolaev, Watermarks, no. 446 (dated 1738)..Extent: 75 folios (iii+75+iv)Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 163 mm.Dimensions (written): 135 × 105 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals, after acquisition in the British Museum.
Collation
9 quires: i2, ii-viii10, ix2 (last quire includes 3 unfoliated leaves at the back). The first and the last quire are later, 19th-century additions.
Catchword on every verso.
Double signatures on the upper left corner of the beginning of each quire (of the original collation, that is, quires ii-viii): both Samaritan and in Arabic. The first signature is 34 and the last is 40 testifying to that fact that this MS was once part three of a set.
Condition
Usage stains.
Layout
Columns:1
Uniform layout.
Written in black and red ink.
Hand(s)
Samaritan minuscule and majuscule scripts and Arabic script of the 18th century.
The scribe was Salama ibn Yaqub ibn Murjan ibn Ibrahim, the Samaritan.
Decoration
Additions:Salama ibn Ghazal (?) added liturgical poetry on ff. 1-5 and 75. These additions are dated 1228 AH (1813).
Binding
Red leather Islamic flap case, blind-tooled.
Spine: 'Ordo Precum Pro Festa Paschatis Samarit. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,005.'
In the digital surrogate the front binding board with flap closed is called back flyleaf (v)r, and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (v)v.
History
Origin: 1748 Additions: 1813 (1288 AH) Nablus?Provenance and Acquisition
1852-03
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 (March 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_19005 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 90.Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 1.Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 61.Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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